Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169060
Failed Dependencies: libc.so.6 is needed by XXX
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:13 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: When I try to install any package requiring glibc, the install fails with the message: Error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.4) is needed by [package name] My research shows that libc.so.6 is part of the glibc-2.3.5-10 rpm package which is installed during the FC4 install. glibc-common of the same version is also installed. I have tried numerous clean installs on two different boxes (Compaq ML370-G2) with the exact same results. I have even tried to download and install newer version of glibc, but the system (rpm) refuses to install or upgrade glibc saying: Error: Failed: dependencies: glibc-common = 2.3.5-10.3 is needed by glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686 glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed) glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.i386 glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed) glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.i386 Help! I really need to get these packages installed and get these boxes up and running. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.3.5-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -ivh libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386.rpm 2. rpm -ivh libxslt-1.1.15-1.i386.rpm 3. Actual Results: error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by libxml2-2.6.22-1.i386 error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by libxslt-1.1.15-1.i386 Expected Results: Packages should have installed without error Additional info:
That means you are trying to install a package that has been built against glibc-2.3.90 (probably rawhide package) on FC4 where you have glibc-2.3.5 installed. Don't do that. Either you need to upgrade to rawhide glibc, or you need to use just packages built for FC4 or earlier.