On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Omer Zak wrote:

> I downloaded the following RPMs:

>From where? What source exactly?

>  9208167  mozilla-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   119897  mozilla-chat-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>  3301167  mozilla-devel-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   162207  mozilla-dom-inspector-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   212296  mozilla-js-debugger-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>  1923838  mozilla-mail-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   103139  mozilla-nspr-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   175862  mozilla-nspr-devel-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   633236  mozilla-nss-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   479970  mozilla-nss-devel-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>   283810  mozilla-psm-1.4-0.i386.rpm
>
> and ran rpm -U --test mozilla*.rpm in a directory which held the
> above files.
> The output was:
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by mozilla-nspr-1.4-0
>

What is your system exactly?

> The versions I have in my Linux installation are:
> /lib/libpthread-0.10.so
> /lib/libc-2.2.93.so
> (according to rpm -qf, both files are from package glibc-2.2.93-5).
>
> My questions:
> 1. Does the above mean that I have to upgrade to package
>    glibc-2.3.2-whatever?
> 2. If yes, does anyone have experience upgrading RedHat 8.0
>    installation like this?  How risky would this be?

8.0 to 9.0? Not exactly trivial. If it is just for mozilla, it is probably
not worth it. My bet is that rebuilding the mozilla SRPM would prove
easier.

The big change is the different threads library.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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