Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 24347
!glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm unable to Upgrade!
Last modified: 2016-11-24 10:20:39 EST
Hello, i tried to upgrade from glibc-2.1.92-14 to glibc-2.2-12. I downloadet the following files from updates.redhat.com ___________________________________ glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm | glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm | glibc-devel-2.2-12.i386.rpm | glibc-profile-2.2-12.i386.rpm | libstdc++-2.96-69.i386.rpm | stunnel-3.10-2.i386.rpm | ___________________________________| all fine then i done: rpm -Fvh glibc-profile-2.2-12.i386.rpm !ok! rpm -Fvh libstdc++-2.96-69.i386.rpm !ok! rpm -Fvh nscd-2.2-12.i386.rpm !ok! rpm -Fvh stunnel-3.10-2.i386.rpm !ok! rpm -Fvh glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm !ok! rpm -Fvh glibc-devel-2.2-12.i386.rpm !error: failed dependencies: glibc = 2.2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2-12! rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm !error: failed dependencies: glibc-common = 2.2 is needed by glibc-2.2-12 /usr/bin/getent is needed by stunnel-3.10- 2! but i have installed glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm !! what is wrong here, i dont understand, please help me out Sincerly Markus Lanthaler rpm -Fvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
If you read e.g. the errata page for glibc, it mentions you have to rpm -Uvh glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm and then do the usual -Fvh stuff. That's because glibc was split into two subpackages and the intent is to require both to be installed at once. The reason why it was split is to save space: glibc-common is only i386 while glibc is i386 and i686 (similarly for other arches).