Re: glibc

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

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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