RE: glibc

["Justice, Randy -CONT(DYN)" <Randy Justice cnet navy mil>]

To Rick Stevens and Karl L. Pearson 

"Thank You"  

Randy


-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens vitalstream com]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:01 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: glibc


karlp ourldsfamily com wrote:
 > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Justice, Randy -CONT(DYN) wrote:
 >
 >>Hi
 >>
 >>How do I determine the version of glibc?
>
> The simplest for a system that's "out of the box" is to run:
> 
> rpm -q glibc
> 
> If you've updated or upgraded using something other than rpm, gnorpm or
the
> kde equivalent, which I've never run so don't know the name, then the
> response will be inaccurate. In that case, someone else will be letting
you
> know any minute now.

Uh, "strings /lib/libc.so.6 | grep ersion" will get the information.
There's probably a more elegant way, but that works for lots of
binaries, provided they use "[V|v]ersion" in the version string.
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