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Asked: 2010-02-26 03:01:49 +0800 CST

How to install glibc in a centos server?

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How do I install glibc on a CentOS server?

I did:

yum install glibc-devel

But it tells me that the version glibc 2.15 is installed.

However i need to have the version 2.17.

yum glib

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can find the official glibc versions for CentOS on the CentOS mirror sites.

    For example

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  2. If you are absolutely sure you need it, you have two choices:

    1. use a different distribution that has the version you need (perhaps in a VM on top of your CentOS)
    2. Compile everything manually (I'd install rpm-build and use make rpm, but this might
      a) break dependencies in the system, and
      b) be a pretty complicated task to do, since the new version of glibc will require a lot of other prerequisites)
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  3. Well, that means that CentOS only has version 2.15 in its repositories. You could try to use yum --enablerepo=updates-testing --enablerepo=testing install glibc-devel but be aware, that an incompatible glibc may lead to problems with installed programs.

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  4. To install glib on CentOS/RedHat/Fedora:

    Login as root user via command prompt/shell

    yum install glib*
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