Information about the package, compat-glibc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The compat-glibc package is designed for, Compatibility C library.
Package Name:
compat-glibc
Summary:
Compatibility C library
Description:
This package contains stub shared libraries and static libraries from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. To compile and link against these compatibility libraries, use gcc34 -I /usr/lib/x86_64-redhat-linux5E/include \ -B /usr/lib/x86_64-redhat-linux5E/lib64/ or gcc -fgnu89-inline \ -I /usr/lib/x86_64-redhat-linux5E/include \ -B /usr/lib/x86_64-redhat-linux5E/lib64/
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.5
Release:
46.2
Size:
1.2 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Control the compat-glibc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install compat-glibc
This command will install compat-glibc on the server.
yum remove compat-glibc
This command will un-install compat-glibc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-glibc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove compat-glibc
This command will un-install compat-glibc on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove compat-glibc when using the -y flag.
yum update compat-glibc
This command will update compat-glibc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-glibc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update compat-glibc
This command will update compat-glibc to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove compat-glibc when using the -y flag.
yum info compat-glibc
This command will show you core information about the compat-glibc package.
yum deplist compat-glibc
This command will show you the dependencies for compat-glibc. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update compat-glibc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on compat-glibc. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.