Re: LUG: Installing RAR on RHEL5 - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:50:47 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: Installing RAR on RHEL5

From : Edward Anderson <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:50:47 -0500

I believe RHEL 5 is on glibc-2.5, but this rar tarball was compiled
against glib-2.7. You can't upgrade glibc without upgrading your whole
system, so instead compile rar from source. It will link against the
glibc on that system and should work.

Edward

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Underwood
<daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> Hey guys, when I run RAR after installing from this tarball
>
> <http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x64-3.9.2.tar.gz>
>
> I get this error:
>
> [user@XXXXX]:~$ rar -h
> rar: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by rar)
> [user@XXXXX]:~$
>
> I confirmed that glibc, glibc-devel, glibc-compat, are all installed to
> their latest versions. My current repos:
>
> [user@XXXXX]:/etc/yum.repos.d$ ll
> total 64
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Apr 25 2008 epel.repo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1054 Apr 25 2008 epel-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 739 Jan 4 08:55 mirrors-rpmforge
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254 Aug 4 2009 rhel-debuginfo.repo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 428 Aug 5 2009 rpmforge.repo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 436 Jan 4 08:55 rpmforge.repo.rpmnew
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 325 Jan 4 08:55 rpmforge-testing.repo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 653 Apr 22 2008 uncrhel.repo
> [user@XXXXX]:/etc/yum.repos.d$
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> TIA,
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Underwood
> North Carolina State University
> Graduate Student - Operations Research
> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> phone: XXX.302.3291
> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
>
>

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