Is there any easy way of upgrading just the glibc

[ifxtechie]

Is there any easy way of upgrading just the glibc to the latest version. Can anybody advice.
Thanks in advance
Partha Parthasarathy, Hassan

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Well for Mandrake you should be able to download and install this rpm --> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/glibc-2.2.4-6mdk.i586.rpm . You just download, 'cd' to that directory and then, as root, do 'rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2.4-6mdk.i586.rpm' . Hopefully, there won't be any dependency errors!

Regards

 

[ifxtechie]

Thanks ifincham, But I got the dependency errors. It is asking for libdb.so.2 and libdb.3. Thanks for the help. IF anything can be done, pls let me know. The following messgaes came when I tried that.
[root@phost informix]# rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2.4-6mdk.i586.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by glibc-2.2.4-6mdk
sash >= 3.4-6mdk is needed by glibc-2.2.4-6mdk
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by glibc-2.2.4-6mdk
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by glibc-2.2.4-6mdk
rpm <= 4.0-0.65 conflicts with glibc-2.2.4-6mdk
glibc-devel < 2.2.3 conflicts with glibc-2.2.4-6mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by rpm-3.0.3-43mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by kpackage-1.3.10-1mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by rpmtools-1.0-7mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by MandrakeUpdate-7.0-12mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by python-1.5.2-3mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by ucd-snmp-4.0.1-3mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by grpmi-0.9-12mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by gnorpm-0.9-4mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by nmh-1.0-2mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by ucd-snmp-utils-4.0.1-3mdk
libdb.so.2 is needed by drakxtools-1.0-43mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by rpm-3.0.3-43mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by kpackage-1.3.10-1mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by MandrakeUpdate-7.0-12mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by python-1.5.2-3mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ucd-snmp-4.0.1-3mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by grpmi-0.9-12mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by gnorpm-0.9-4mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by nmh-1.0-2mdk
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by drakxtools-1.0-43mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by pam-0.68-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by postfix-19991231-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by control-center-1.0.51-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by openldap-1.2.7-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnomeicu-0.68-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-linuxconf-0.22-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by python-1.5.2-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by irssi-0.7.20.1-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gmc-4.5.42-4mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by pygnome-1.0.50-7mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by kdevelop-1.0-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-utils-1.0.50-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by apache-1.3.9-17mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-libs-1.0.54-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by xchat-1.3.8-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by ee-0.3.11-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-core-1.0.55-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-admin-1.0.3-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by xemacs-21.1.8-4mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-media-1.0.51-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gedit-0.5.5-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-objc-1.0.2-6mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-print-0.10-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnorpm-0.9-4mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by xemacs-mule-21.1.8-4mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-guile-1.0.0-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by apache-suexec-1.3.9-17mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-toaster-19991021-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by libglade-0.11-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by wmconfig-0.9.7-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by enlightenment-conf-0.15-8mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-pim-1.0.55-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by memprof-0.3.0-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by glade-0.5.5-6mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-games-1.0.51-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by g-print-0.2-3mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnomba-0.5.1-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnumeric-0.46-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by perl-5.00503-10mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gnome-chess-0.2.3-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gtop-1.0.6-1mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by gdm-2.0beta2-7mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by icewm-1.0.0-2mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by xmms-gnome-0.9.5.1-7mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by xemacs-X11-21.1.8-4mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by perl-GTK-gnome-0.6123-8mdk
libdb.so.3 is needed by ymessenger-0.93.0-1
libdb.so.3 is needed by IBM_HTTP_Server-1.3.19-0
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by postfix-19991231-3mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by python-1.5.2-3mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by gnome-libs-1.0.54-1mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by perl-5.00503-10mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by pam-0.68-2mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by openldap-1.2.7-3mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by xemacs-21.1.8-4mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by xemacs-mule-21.1.8-4mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by perl-5.00503-10mdk
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by xemacs-X11-21.1.8-4mdk
/lib/ld-linux.so.1 is needed by libc-5.3.12-32mdk
[root@phost informix]#


Once again, thanks for the help.
Regards
Partha Parthasarathy, Hassan