On 11/22/2012 07:05 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I cannot install glibc.i686 on a x86_64 system because I get
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-81 is needed by package glibc-2.5-81.i686 (base)
glibc-common.x86_64 is installed, but it's apparently looking for i686. There's indeed no glibc-common for i686. There's also glibc.i386 and glibc-common.i386 available, but I think I don't need them.
I have other x86_64 systems that have an installed glibc.i686 and no glibc.i386 and glibc-common.i386. I don't remember how I did that, probably on first install.
How do I get glibc.i686 with yum on the system?
That is NOT the latest version of glibc.i686 .. it is the version that is in CentOS 5.8, but have been 4 updates to the CentOS-5.8 glibc since then.
The one thing you are going to need to do is to have the same version of glibc.i686 that you have for glibc.x86_64.
If you really do have 2.5-81 and not glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1 (or .2, .4, or .7) then it should install just fine. I would bet you have a different version of glibc.x86_64 ... what does this tell you:
rpm -qa | grep glibc | sort
(pay particular attention to see if there is a number after "-81")
And this is a requirement for any multi-lib package, not just glibc ... one should use the same i[3,6]86 package version as the installed x86_64 version to get the install to work correctly.