Re: RPM won't install

Doug Ostgard <do@lvcm.com> writes:

> I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and trying to upgrade postgresql to 7.1.  The
> installed version has the timestamp bug, so I must upgrade.  RPM install
> said I needed libc.so.6, which is on my system.  So I installed rpm with
> --nodeps to force it to install.  However, running Postgresql complains
> that libc.so.6 is incorrect version, and requires "GLIBC_2.2".  I
> installed from the RedHat 7.1 RPM binary.

Mandrake 7.x maps to Red Hat Linux 6.x, and is not compatible with Red
Hat Linux 7.x. Their 8.0 is the first of their releases using the Red
Hat Linux 7.x components, like glibc 2.2.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.