Can't get GCC installed. HELP! (RPM related)

Can't get GCC installed. HELP! (RPM related)

[Sherzod Ruzmetov]

Hi folks.

I hadn't encountered a *nix box without a compiler untill an unfortunate
yesterday!
And today, having trouble installing a gcc with using RPM packages. While
installing
dependencies, the following error is spit out:

<screen>
[root@infocube tmp]# rpm -i glibc-common-2.2.93-5.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        glibc < 2.2.93 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.93-5
</screen>

I have no clue what it might mean.

Thanks

Sherzod

Re: Can't get GCC installed. HELP! (RPM related)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  1, 2003, "Sherzod Ruzmetov" <sherzodr@handalak.com> wrote:

> [root@infocube tmp]# rpm -i glibc-common-2.2.93-5.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         glibc < 2.2.93 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.93-5
> </screen>

> I have no clue what it might mean.

Clue 1: glibc and gcc are separate projects, so this e-mail is
totally inappropriate here.

Clue 2: if you update glibc-common, you must update glibc too, in a
single RPM transaction.  But you shouldn't have to update glibc just
to install GCC.  If you think you need, you're probably just picking a
GCC version that was not built for the environment on which you're
trying to install it.

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RE: Can't get GCC installed. HELP! (RPM related)

[Sherzod Ruzmetov]

    : > [root@infocube tmp]# rpm -i glibc-common-2.2.93-5.i386.rpm
    : > error: failed dependencies:
    : >         glibc < 2.2.93 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.93-5
    : > </screen>
    : 
    : > I have no clue what it might mean.
    : 
    : Clue 1: glibc and gcc are separate projects, so this e-mail is
    : totally inappropriate here.

You see, what happend was, I tried to install gcc, and it gave me the
list of dependancies. I kept following dependencies (bunch of them)
and got stuck when I reached the above glibc-common. 

So was thinking if anyone could pull me out of the trap. 

Thanks though

Sherzod