[plug] upgrading glibc in Fedora Core 4

[David Buddrige]

Hi all,

I have been attempting for the last few hours to upgrade glibc on my
machine, because some other software I have requires a later version.
The box I am running was [originally] installed with Fedora Core 4, and
so I am trying to upgrade the bits that need upgrading to allow me to
upgrade other stuff that I am actually interested in running. 8-)

Below is a dump of my shell commands [and results] that I have been
getting in an attempt to perform this upgrade.

Is there something I am doing wrong, or is there some thing I can do to
complete this upgrade?  It is seeming to me like a chicken/egg problem
of circular dependancies.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

David.

[root at main compiled]# ls -l glib*
-rw-rw-r--  1 david david  4947776 Jun 16 21:06 glibc-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  1 david david  6510115 Jun 16 18:05 glibc-2.3.6-3.i686.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  1 david david 16289967 Jun 16 18:22
glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  1 david david  2032943 Jun 16 21:01
glibc-devel-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  1 david david   622021 Jun 16 20:56
glibc-headers-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  1 david david   105275 Jun 16 20:48
glibc-utils-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
[root at main compiled]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-devel-2.3.5-10
glibc-common-2.3.5-10
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.94
glibc-headers-2.3.5-10
glibc-2.3.5-10
glibc-utils-2.3.5-10
glibc-profile-2.3.5-10
[root at main compiled]# rpm -U glibc-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
warning: glibc-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
        glibc-common = 2.3.6-3 is needed by glibc-2.3.6-3.i386
        glibc > 2.3.5 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.5-10.i386
        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
        glibc = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed)
glibc-utils-2.3.5-10.i386
[root at main compiled]# rpm -U glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm
warning: glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
        glibc < 2.3.6 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.6-3.i386
        glibc-common = 2.3.5-10 is needed by (installed)
glibc-2.3.5-10.i686
[root at main compiled]#


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