gcc installation problems
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From: Mario Morrell on 4 Jan 2010 13:02 On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 20:32 -0800, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Jan 2, 1:28 am, Michal Jaegermann <mic...(a)gortel.phys.ualberta.ca> > wrote: > > Mario Morrell <morrellmarioc...(a)qwest.net> wrote: > > > > > I am running Fedora 12 on an i686 machine and I am attempting to install > > > gcc-4.4.2-20.fc12.i686 either with the Add/Remove Software program or > > > yum so that I can compile some programs from source. I end up getting > > > the error message: > > > glibc=2.11-2 needed by glibc-devel-2.11-2.i686 > > > glibc=2.11-2 needed by glibc-headers-2.11-2.i686 > > > > The only glibc requirement for gcc-4.4.2-20.fc12 is > > glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12 and this in turn would need _the same_ version > > of glibc. > > > > > Currently I have glibc-2.11-4.i686 installed and > > > > Then you do not running Fedora 12, where the current release version > > of glibc is glibc-2.11-2 but, judging from your error messages, some > > kind of a mess where glibc and its "sub-packages" are of different > > versions and it is hard to guess how did you get into that sorry state. > > Probably using rpm with '--nodeps' and/or '--force'. If you do such > > things it is up to you to extricate yourself from a self created swamp. > > Such changes should be done in _one_ consistent transaction. Nothing > > to do at all with gcc. > > > > Most likely you should > > > > yum downgrade glibc-2.11-2.i686 > > > > and check results with > > > > rpm -qa 'glibc*' > > > > Once you will see the same version in answers then you can install other > > things. 'rpm --verify -a' checks sanity of all rpm packages you > > installed. Redirect an output to a file as it may be a long one and > > this will take a while. See 'man rpm' for meanings of markers for > > '--verify' (in a section called, surprise, 'VERIFY OPTIONS'). > > Ouch. It's also possible that our here has something else going on, > like pointers to a separate repository that is non-Fedora repository > marked as a 'preferred' repository, or a partially failed insallation > of glibc dangling around so he has an older and a current glibc > package in place (which I've seen!) > > Running "rpm -qa | grep glibc" would be indicative. I made sure that yum is only using a Fedora repository and running " rpm -qa | greb glibc" gives me: glibc-2.11-4.i686 glibc-common-2.11.4.i686 When I try to downgrade to glibc-2.11-2.i686 yum comes back and tells me there is no glibc-2.11-2.i686 available. |