RHEL 6 - how to install 'GLIBC_2.14' or 'GLIBC_2.15'?

I need these 2 packages installed on RHEL 6 linux system. They are required by several other programs.

When I do:

sudo yum install glibc-devel 

this is output:

Loaded plugins: product-id, security Setting up Install Process Package glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do 

Is there some EPEL with GLIBC_2.15 for RHEL? If not - what is a workaround here?

4 Answers

This often occurs when you build software in RHEL 7 and try to run on RHEL 6.

To update GLIBC to any version, simply download the package from

For example glibc-2.14.tar.gz in your case.

1. tar xvfz glibc-2.14.tar.gz 2. cd glibc-2.14 3. mkdir build 4. cd build 5. ../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14 6. make 7. sudo make install 8. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.14/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

Then try to run your software, glibc-2.14 should be linked.

Naive question: Is it possible to somehow download GLIBC 2.15, put it in any folder (e.g. /tmp/myglibc) and then point to this path ONLY when executing something that needs this specific version of glibc?

Yes, it's possible.

For another instance of Glibc, download gcc 4.7.2, for instance from this github repo (although an official source would be better) and extract it to some folder, then update LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the path where you have extracted glib.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$glibpath/glib-2.49.4-kgesagxmtbemim2denf65on4iixy3miy/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$glibpath/libffi-3.2.1-wk2luzhfdpbievnqqtu24pi774esyqye/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$glibpath/pcre-8.39-itdbuzevbtzqeqrvna47wstwczud67wx/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$glibpath/gettext-0.19.8.1-aoweyaoufujdlobl7dphb2gdrhuhikil/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

This should keep you safe from bricking your CentOS*.

*Disclaimer: I just completed the thought it looks like the OP was trying to express, but I don't fully agree.

download rpm packages and run the following command:

rpm -Uvh glibc-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm \ glibc-common-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm \ glibc-devel-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm \ glibc-headers-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm