Installing updates for glibc and libxml2

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

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.