Installing updates for glibc and libxml2

[pm]

--- 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.



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