Re: glibc and RHEL? How do I upgrade the one without messing up the other?

John Oliver wrote:
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:20:47 GMT, W. Dale Hall wrote:
I'm running RHEL 4 (kernel is apparently this: 2.6.9-67.ELsmp),
and have found out that my version of glibc is something like
2.3.4. Actually, I don't really know the precise version, but
I was attempting to install my latest Matlab upgrade only to
have it bark at me that the machine configuration was too old.

You may have the most recent glibc supported by Red Hat for that
version. have you tried "up2date glibc"?

If you *must* have a newer version of glibc, and do not care about the
Red Hatishness of your system (ie. no support), you could hit up
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ or http://rpmfind.net/ for more
recent versions.


GAHHH!!!! Dag knows better than to get into the glibc business! That's a core system component that would be a nightmare for him to publish.

If you have to hunt RPM's, I find that http://rpm.pbone.net/ has a much better search engine than rpmfind.net.

You need to go to RHEL 5, or to CentOS 5 if you're feeling cheap. Back-porting a more recent version of glibc is begging for pain.
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