GLIBC 2.6 on Centos 5.8

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There are many discussions about glibc on CentOS on serverfault but I couldn't find one directly related to these: I have CentOS 5.8 server and I would like to install G-WAN. It requires GLIBC 2.6, I have 2.5 right now.

Does CentOS 5.8 support GLIBC 2.6 or do I have to upgrade to CentOS 6? Is there a documentation about these requirements?

Thanks.

G-WAN worked hard recently to remove this issue, look at this other reply: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13559098/which-linux-kernels-and-linux-distros-are-supported-by-g-wan/13562162#13562162 — Gil, Nov 27 '12 at 14:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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The discussions you may have seen are correct...
See here, here, here, and here.

You can't change glibc versions on CentOS 5. You'll need an upgrade to a newer version of RHEL/CentOS.

EL6 ships with glibc 2.12:

Name        : glibc                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.12                              Vendor: CentOS

Of course, upgrading CentOS versions isn't particularly easy...

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Nov 22 '12 at 23:55

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GLIBC 2.6 on Centos 5.8

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