Hi Greg,
You are most likely correct. I'm not at all familiar with how yum
searches for stuff, but I did find the library and grabbed the bits,
however, it won't install due to a compatibility issue with glibc-common.
Thanks...
Greg Knaddison wrote:
>On 9/21/05, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Can someone tell me where I can find glibc-2.3.3 for either x86-64 or
>>most likely i386. My yum stuff must be broken, or I don't know how to
>>use it cause it can't find the lib. I'm looking on the CD's also, but
>>so far, no luck.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Sam,
>
>Which version of CentOS are you using? If it's 4, below is what I
>found using the yum search capability. I think that you are using the
>wrong library name, which an escaped wildcard passed to yum would fix.
>
>Regards,
>Greg
>
>[root at porter ~]# yum search glibc\*
>Searching Packages:
>Setting up Repos
>update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
>addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
>Reading repository metadata in from local files
>update : ################################################## 160/160
>base : ################################################## 1406/1406
>extras : ################################################## 33/33
>
>
>glibc-utils.i386 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc-utils
>
>
>glibc.i386 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc
>
>
>nss_db.i386 2.2-29 base
>Matched from:
>http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/
>
>
>glibc.i686 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc
>
>
>compat-glibc-headers.i386 1:2.3.2-95.30 base
>Matched from:
>compat-glibc-headers
>
>
>nss_db-compat.i386 2.2-29 base
>Matched from:
>An NSS compatibility library for Berkeley Databases and glibc 2.0.x.
>Nss_db-compat is a set of C library extensions which allow Berkeley
>Databases to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups,
>hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services, and shadow passwords
>(instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS) from programs
>linked against glibc 2.0.x.
>http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/
>
>
>glibc-devel.i386 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc-devel
>
>
>glibc-headers.i386 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc-headers
>
>
>compat-glibc.i386 1:2.3.2-95.30 base
>Matched from:
>compat-glibc
>
>
>glibc-kernheaders.i386 2.4-9.1.87 base
>Matched from:
>glibc-kernheaders
>Header files for the Linux kernel for use by glibc
>Kernel-headers includes the C header files that specify the interface
>between the Linux kernel and userspace libraries and programs. The
>header files define structures and constants that are needed for
>building most standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the
>glibc package
>
>
>glibc-common.i386 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc-common
>Common binaries and locale data for glibc
>
>
>glibc-profile.i386 2.3.4-2.9 base
>Matched from:
>glibc-profile
>The glibc-profile package includes the GNU libc libraries and support
>for profiling using the gprof program. Profiling is analyzing a
>program's functions to see how much CPU time they use and determining
>which functions are calling other functions during execution. To use
>gprof to profile a program, your program needs to use the GNU libc
>libraries included in glibc-profile (instead of the standard GNU libc
>libraries included in the glibc package).
>
>If you are going to use the gprof program to profile a program, you'll
>need to install the glibc-profile package.
>
>
>nss_db.i386 2.2-29 installed
>Matched from:
>http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/
>
>
>glibc.i686 2.3.4-2.9 installed
>Matched from:
>glibc
>
>
>glibc-common.i386 2.3.4-2.9 installed
>Matched from:
>glibc-common
>Common binaries and locale data for glibc
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