glibc 2.5 and higher with Mageia-2

[cerezha]

Hello everyone
I am new on this forum. I am using Mageia-2 on AMD FX processor, asus MB M5A97 LER2.0 I have a problem - software, I am using for my job required "glibs 2.5 and higher". Mageia come with Glibs-2.14.1. There is no option to upgrade Glibc via Mageia's Software Manager. I looked on Internet and I could not find anything for Mageia. I could fling Glibc for Fedora, Red Hat, but Mageia. Any suggestions how and where I could get never version of Glibc? Many thanks in advance. Sergey

[Ken-Bergen]

2.14.1is higher than 2.5
Perhaps you could tell us what problem you're having and/or what error messages you're getting.

[doktor5000]

I looked on Internet and I could not find anything for Mageia. I could fling Glibc for Fedora, Red Hat, but Mageia. Any suggestions how and where I could get never version of Glibc?

As the GNU C Library is a really basic and essential core component, you shouldn't upgrade that, even less from some arbitrary packages found somewhere on the internet. For the rest see Ken's comment.

[cerezha]

2.14.1is higher than 2.5
Perhaps you could tell us what problem you're having and/or what error messages you're getting.

I am using EMAN2 software for my reseach. In EMAN description, it is stated that EMAN may be used only with glibc higher than 2.5. So, I need to have glibc on my machine in order to use EMAN2. I have no error messages because Linux is fine. The question was is it possible to "upgrade" Mageii to glibc 2.5 or higher or I should change distro?
EMAN2:
http://blake.bcm.edu/emanwiki/EMAN2/Ins ... aryInstall
"Note: In the following installation instruction, I assume you are installing EMAN2 in your home directory. So I use my home directory "/home/gtang" as an example. EMAN2 provides four nightly builds for Linux: eman2.nightly.linux.tar.bz2 and eman2.daily.linux.tar.bz2 are for 32 bit Linux (i386). eman2.daily.linux64.tar.bz2 and eman2.daily.linux64.gcc4.tar.bz2 are for 64 bit Linux (x86_64). The gcc4 version requires glibc version at least 2.5. We recommend you install the gcc4 version of EMAN2 unless your linux release is several years out of date."

[Ken-Bergen]

In EMAN description, it is stated that EMAN may be used only with glibc higher than 2.5. So, I need to have glibc on my machine in order to use EMAN2. I have no error messages because Linux is fine. The question was is it possible to "upgrade" Mageii to glibc 2.5 or higher or I should change distro?

As I said 14 is greater than 5 so you'd be down grading.

[jkerr82508]

It seems that you may not understand what Ken posted. Perhaps this page will make it clearer:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/

Mageia 2 has glibc 2.14.1 (cauldron has 2.17)

Version 2.5 was released in 2006: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/ and is clearly much older than the versions available in Mageia. I don't think that you could find a distro that is still using it.

Jim

[benmc]

software version convention:

first digit = major release or upgrade [e.g. from 1.? to 2.0.0 ]
2nd set of digit(s) ( after 1st decimal .) = minor upgrade [ e.g. 2.9 to 2.10, note the missing " 0" before the 9 ] usually installation of a new feature included.
3rd set of digit(s) ( after 2nd decimal .) = minor update [ e.g. 2.9.37 to 2.9.38 ], usually a bug kill update.

so glibc 2.5 could be read as 2.(missing 0 )5, glibc 2.17 is a much later edition