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safely upgrade glibc on CentOS 7

Check it is actually needed Firstly check the python application as it could be out of date and is probably misreading the glibc version. CentOS shows the base version as installed and is patched to ...
Simon Greenwood's user avatar
6 votes
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libc6 dependency mismatch in Debian 9.12 stretch

You configured your system to use packages from several distributions at once (a so-called Frankenstein-Debian), so dependency errors are normal. Run cat /etc/apt/sources.list{,.d/*.list} in bash to ...
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4 votes

safely upgrade glibc on CentOS 7

In the end,I did not have to upgrade GLIBC. The gdc-client tool I downloaded through R seemed to be for Ubuntu and not CentOS, though I did it on CentOS 7. I then downloaded the gdc-client for CentOS ...
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3 votes

safely upgrade glibc on CentOS 7

On CentOS 7, I included the /usr/lib64 folder in the rpath as follows patchelf --set-interpreter /opt/glibc-2.18/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --set-rpath /opt/glibc-2.18/lib:/usr/lib64 pydio-agent This ...
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3 votes

Can't upgrade certbot because of libc6 version

I would not recommend mixing and matching packages meant for different major versions of a distro because sometimes dependencies are pulled in that destablize the whole. If at all possible I would "...
Anon's user avatar
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2 votes
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Can't upgrade certbot because of libc6 version

Finally got a solution: apt install libc6/stretch libc6-dev/stretch libc-dev-bin/stretch libc-bin/stretch locales/stretch linux-libc-dev/stretch Another user have the same problem and fortunately ...
Fel's user avatar
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2 votes

Is it possible/advisable to try and update libc6 without rebooting the machine?

you can use checkrestart utility from debian-goodies package and restart only listed services
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