Re: required glibc-common = 2.12-1.25.el6 vs installed glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3.x86_64

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:55:51 -0600 (CST)
Connie Sieh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:41:32 -0500
> > "Terre Porter" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not sure if this is a yum issue or just me being a bit brain
> >> dead.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to install gcc on a Scientific Linux release 6.1
> >> (Carbon) box using yum but it keeps giving me the following error.
> >>
> >> Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.i686 (sl)
> >>            Requires: glibc-common = 2.12-1.25.el6
> >>            Installed: glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3.x86_64
> >> (@sl-fastbugs/6) glibc-common = 2.12-1.25.el6_1.3
> >>            Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64 (sl)
> >>                glibc-common = 2.12-1.25.el6
> >>
> >> Anyone else having this problem, or know of how to fix it?
> >>
> >
> > 1. it looks like you have a newer version of glibc than what gcc in
> > the sl 6.1 release has been built against
> > 2. you should probably ping the scientific linux folks to see if
> > this is a known repo issue
> >
> > -sv
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> 
> You need to enable the "fastbugs" repo as it seems you have installed
> the glibc from that repo .  The "fastbugs" repo has
> glibc-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3 and the "standard" repo has
> glibc-2.12-1.25.el6 .
> 
>     yum --enablerepo=fastbugs install gcc
> 
> This will enable the fastbugs repo which has the glibc versions that
> you have installed already.
> 

Connie,
 Thanks - I didn't feel like digging through the repos for the answer
 but I figured it was something like that.

thanks
-sv