"John N. Alegre" wrote:
>
> Hmmm Im on a RedHat 6.0 system and I just did a
>
> rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.at.somesite.somewhere/the/path/to/glibc-2.1.2-11.i386.rpm
>
> and it worked fine the first time. No conflicts, No Deps.
>
> Now I do recall a lot of problems when I tried to do that back in 5.0 with
> glibc-2.0.something but this one worked first time. May be ill read that HOWTO
> anyway.
Cool... I won't argue with success. The conflicts and dependencies I
mentioned aren't necessarily the sort of things package management would
detect -- for example, application dependence on the (possibly buggy)
behavior of a particular library release. Please keep us informed if you
discover any post-update system weirdnesses.
Nathan
>
> john
>
> On 01-Dec-99 Nathan Meyers wrote:
> > Updating glibc is very tricky stuff, with many dependencies and
> > opportunities to break the system midway through installation. The usual
> > way to do it (at least in RedHat-land) is to update your distribution
> > installation.
> >
> > This document discusses how to do a glibc install:
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Glibc2-HOWTO-1.html
> >
> > it's targeted at upgrading from libc5, and the requirements might not
> > be as elaborate if you're coming from glibc2.0.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:15:59AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> >> I just installed JDK 1.2.2 on my Slackware 4.0 system, and I get a
> >> strange error message when I try to run anything.
> >> Here's what happens:
> >>
> >> ====
> >> duke:/usr/local/bin/jdk1.2.2/bin# ./java
> >> ./java: /bin/realpath: No such file or directory
> >> ./java: /bin/realpath: No such file or directory
> >> java was not found in /bin/i386/native_threads/java
> >> ====
> >>
> >> It looks like I have glibc 2.0.7, so I'm downloading glibc 2.1.2 from
> >> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/gnu/glibc
> >>
> >> I suppose I have to compile it myself, huh?
> >> I currently have GCC 2.7.2.3 and Linux 2.2.6.
> >> So, do I need a new GCC also? What about G++? What about the C++
> >> libraries? Do I need to upgrade them too? How?
> >>
> >> Sorry I'm so full of questions! 8-)
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >>
> >>
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