Hi, Since I'm running mandrake 9.0 and have a faint memory of upgrading glibc, I checked. I seem to have glibc 2.3.1 installed (from rpm - cooker) on this machine. I also seem to remember that the upgrade was totally seamless... :-) I seem to think that maybe....on a good day... it's okay to try it... Do I seem vague? :-o /Robert On Thursday 30 January 2003 17.22, iriXx wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: > > Heh, everyone has libc warstories. I deleted glibc fomr my studio linux > > box last year. Lucily I could put it back with RPM as the rpm program > > doesn't link against libc. > > wow... thats impressive, how did you do it?... getting a little > overzealous with rm -rf ?.... > > time before last that i killed a linux box was by upgrading the various > c libs with --force... thats why im a little once-bitten twice-shy....! > > guess the only option unless i get off my bum and get my LAN working is > to try and upgrade glibc and see what it barfs up the screen... hmm.... > fun... ;-) > > m~
