Installing updates for glibc and libxml2

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Lunes 03 Abril 2006 22:25, pm escribió:
> --- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel at todo-linux.com>
>
> wrote:
> > El Lunes 03 Abril 2006 21:39, pm escribió:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am using RHEL 3.0 on i386. I want to install the
> > > latest version of libxml2 (2.6.23). So I
> >
> > downloaded
> >
> > > the rpm and when I run "rpm -ivh --force
> > > libxml2-2.6.23-1.2.i386.rpm" to install it, I get
> >
> > the
> >
> > > following.
> > >
> > > warning: libxml2-2.6.23-1.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA
> > > signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > >         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by
> > > libxml2-2.6.23-1.2
> > >         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by
> > > libxml2-2.6.23-1.2
> > >
> > > I saw (by rpm -q glibc) that the version of glibc
> >
> > I
> >
> > > have is glibc-2.3.2-95.30. Where can I get the the
> > > latest version of glibc and how should I install
> >
> > the
> >
> > > update (I mean, what command line to enter)? I
> > > downloaded the compressed archive from gnu
> >
> > website,
> >
> > > but it seems to have only the sources. Can I get
> >
> > the
> >
> > > rpm from somewhere?
> > >
> > > Also I saw that there is already libxml2
> >
> > installed.
> >
> > > How can I install the latest version on top of the
> > > existing one?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Pinaki
> >
> > Why don't you use yum in order to satisfy all
> > dependencies ?
> > You can search for the package you want using:
> >
> > yum search $package_name
> >
> >
> > You can also use apt4rpm if you have installed it.
> >
> > Kind Regards.
> >
> > Manuel.
>
> Thanks, but I don't have yum or apt4rpm installed.
> It's easier if I can just install/update the said
> packages manually for now.
>

And what about up2date?
I'm agree with Tobias, is not a good idea to update glibc but it's absolutely 
necessary

Cheers