On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Paul Folbrecht wrote:
> Have installed RH7 recently and finally got to updating glibc. Since
> I'm on a P3 I grabbed glibc-2.2-12.i686.rpm. When I run rpm -Uvh
> OR rpm -Fvh on it, I get this error:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12
> /usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.8-4
>
> This surprised me because on Red Hat's site the only file listed as
> needed for i686 was the one I grabbed. Anyway, I went back and got
> glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm and tried to install it. Running rpm -ivh
> or rpm iUvh gives me:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> glibc < 2.2-12 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.12.
>
> It seems that this is telling me that in order to install
> glibc-common-2.2-12 I would need to **uninstall** the older version of
> glibc present. I was about to do this, but then realized that this is
> something that could possibly hose me pretty badly. So, I decided to
> seek advice from this forum before proceeding. If I uninstall glibc and
> am not able to replace it nothing would run (including the kernel..?).
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can provide me with clear instructions
> on exactly how to go about this.
>
> -Paul
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm glibc-2.2-12.i686.rpm
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