Re: glibc

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Oki DZ <litbang@haltek.telkom.net.id> wrote:
>On Tue, 30 May 2000 zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote:
>> in order to install a newer version of lftp in order to get the recursive
>> put feature... i need to upgrade glibc.  Can a lower version of glibc run
>> concurrently alongside the newer version, or will it replace it altogether
>> thus requiring upgrading the other packages as well??
>
>bdg:~# dpkg -l | grep libc
>ii  libc-client4.7 4.7-7          UW c-client library for mail protocols
>ii  libc5          5.4.46-3       The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
>libr
>ii  libc6          2.1.3-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
>Timezone
>ii  libc6-dev      2.1.3-2        GNU C Library: Development Libraries and
>Hea

However, libc6-2.0 can't run alongside libc6-2.1, and if the original
poster was asking about installing potato's lftp on a slink system (at a
guess), then this won't work. (Note that libc5 is not glibc ...)

You'll either need to upgrade glibc and pretty much everything else, or
you could try building lftp from source against your current version of
glibc. Get the source packages for lftp (add a deb-src line to
/etc/apt/sources.list similar to the deb line for your Debian mirror,
then 'apt-get source lftp'), make sure you have gcc, make, etc.,
dpkg-dev, fakeroot, and any development packages associated with lftp's
dependencies installed (as a quick rule of thumb), and then change to
the top-level source directory for lftp and type 'dpkg-buildpackage
-rfakeroot'.

That's a very quick guide :), but you might find it useful.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]