[NTLUG:Discuss] Upgrading gcc libraries--best way?

Terry Henderson trryhend at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 21:37:44 CST 2004


On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:04:07 -0600 (CST), Ed Coates
<edcoates at nighthawk.dyndns.org> wrote:
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> 
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> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, John Thomas wrote:
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> > I've downloaded Firefox for my RH 7.3 laptop system, and I get a failed
> > dependency for libstdc++.so.5.  After finding and running this rpm I get
> > further failed dependencies.
> >
> > Is there a practical way to upgrade all the libraries?  For example, with one
> > rpm?  Or should I just wipe my disk and install the latest OS release?
> >
> > Obviously, I know enough to know what a dependency is and use rpm, but I'm
> > not a pro software engineer.  I just want to run Firefox!
> >
> > Any tips or pointers are appreciated.
> >
> 
> Redhat 7.3 is pretty old, and I'm not even sure that it's still supported.
> It might be better to reload with the latest to avoid things like this.
> 
I agree, you probably should upgrade or re-install because firefox and
other applications are going to be looking for glib 2.3x and if you
try and update those libraries, well, I just don't think it's
feasible.

Your best bet and / or easiest route is to upgrade or update your OS
to newer version.  RedHat 7.3 has been superseded by RedHat 8.0, 9.0,
Fedora Core 1, Core 2, Core 3, so you're a pretty long way behind.  If
 you upgrade to at least RedHat 9.0 or higher, you'll be okay, but I'd
just go on up to Core 3, if I were you.  But if you want to stick with
kernel 2.4, Core 1 is latest version with 2.4x kernel.



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