[Yum] required glibc-common = 2.12-1.25.el6 vs installed glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3.x86_64

[Connie Sieh]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:41:32 -0500
> "Terre Porter" <tporter at webpage-builders.com> 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 Sieh
Scientific Linux Developer