#HOW TO INSTALL GLIBC 2.14 ON CENTOS HOW TO#

If you do the latter, it may be helpful to look up how to take a compiled package and turn it into an rpm (plenty of guides online). The right answer here is to install CentOS 7 on a new box, or to compile the package that you are trying to install from source against your existing glibc. Future package installs and even yum upgrades will uncover additional version dependency issues until the end of time. In the end, in order to upgrade glibc you'll need to upgrade most of the packages on your system, leaving you with a dirty mess of a distro that has been half-upgraded. Following this process, you'll be able to build 2.14 but you will need to tell the compiler where to look for glibc. configure -prefix/opt/glibc-2.14 make -j4 make install. If you have a question just post as a comment and i will reply it as soon as possible. To install glibc 2.14 in parallel, add the configure prefix: tar zxvf glibc-2.14.tar.gz cd glibc-2.14 mkdir build cd build. We have GLIBC2.17 on our centos 6.x VPS server. You can force rpm to bend to your will somewhat with some additional flags, but you'll never be able to update your packages again. GLIBC2.11 GLIBC2.12 GLIBC2.13 GLIBC2.14 GLIBC2.15 GLIBC2.16 GLIBC2.17 GLIBCPRIVATE. Also, glibc version on this page for Jan 2022 shows as 2.17 (79), and that agrees with 2. It's a nasty web of dependencies, some circular, and rpm will (rightfully) fight you every step of the way. Why do I think it is part of glibc I found some fuzzy evidence from google that log4j is part of the glibc package, at least for centos 7. But, there are other core and slightly less core packages that depend on those other packages. Let us assume you want to install 2.14 along 2.

Glibc is very much core to a GNU/Linux system (on both the GNU and Linux sides), and you are going to have a lot of other core packages that are built against the specific version of glibc that you are running now.

You can see the status of the glibc package in the Debian Package Tracker System. Upgrading glibc is possible, but a nightmare. You can add the switch -dry-run to see what will being installed before hand.

How to install glibc 2.14 on centos