Installing updates for glibc and libxml2

[Tobias Speckbacher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 1:06 PM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Installing updates for glibc and libxml2
> 
> El Lunes 03 Abril 2006 21:39, pm escribió:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am using RHEL 3.0 on i386. I want to install the
> > latest version of libxml2 (2.6.23). So I downloaded
> > the rpm and when I run "rpm -ivh --force
> > libxml2-2.6.23-1.2.i386.rpm" to install it, I get the
> > following.

If you absolutely can not live with the libxml2 version provided by RHN (via up2date) I would try compiling it from source against the set of supported libraries on your system.

Upgrading glibc is not to be taken lightly, as just about every application relies on it.  I have gone through that exercise a few times and pretty much decided that it is not worth my time or the risk of completely hosing the system by doing so.

Also you can consider you support contract pretty much void from that point on. Packages downloaded from RHN after the upgrade may not work on your system anymore.


> >
> > warning: libxml2-2.6.23-1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA
> > signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> >         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by
> > libxml2-2.6.23-1.2
> >         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by
> > libxml2-2.6.23-1.2
> >
> > I saw (by rpm -q glibc) that the version of glibc I
> > have is glibc-2.3.2-95.30. Where can I get the the
> > latest version of glibc and how should I install the
> > update (I mean, what command line to enter)? I
> > downloaded the compressed archive from gnu website,
> > but it seems to have only the sources. Can I get the
> > rpm from somewhere?
> >
> > Also I saw that there is already libxml2 installed.
> > How can I install the latest version on top of the
> > existing one?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Pinaki
> >
> 
> 
> Why don't you use yum in order to satisfy all dependencies ?
> You can search for the package you want using:
> 
> yum search $package_name
> 
> 
> You can also use apt4rpm if you have installed it.
> 
> Kind Regards.
> 
> Manuel.
> 
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