Re: glibc upgrade fails

[Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 arcor de>]

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:54:14, Lancer wrote:

> I have a new install of AS 2.1 which I understand is based on RH 8.0 for RPM
> purposes. I have new RPMs which are dependent on libc.so.6 so I am trying to
> upgrade glibc. As shown below this seems to be a chicken/egg thing. How do I
> upgrade glibc?
> 
> [root host rpms]# uname -a
> Linux host 2.4.9-e.3 #1 Fri May 3 17:02:43 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> 
> [root host rpms]# rpm -i glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6.i686.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> glibc-common = 2.3.2-4.80.6 is needed by glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6
> glibc > 2.2.4 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.4-26
> 
> 
> [root host rpms]# rpm -i glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> glibc < 2.3.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6

Both at once solves the circular dependencies. Also, you will
need -U (upgrade) instead of -i (install):

  rpm -Uvh glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6.i386.rpm

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