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[Don Dailey]

Thanks Richard,

We can wait. I did not know about the backward compatibility between glibc versions. We need to upgrade Larry soon anyway for other reasons - it's just going to be a big disruption for us.

One of the reasons I love Linux so much was to avoid the constant pressure to upgrade but apparently they are not going to let us be.

I don't see an easy way to upgrade glibc. The update command doesn't do the trick, apt-get update does not take addtional arguments. Ubuntu does provide easy distribution upgrades but it's failing to work for Larry and there is a warning error that it needs to happen from the console so I fear trying to do the apt-get dist-upgrade remotely for him - I may give this a shot anyway but if it puts his computer in a bad state he will be helpless unless I can get over there.

There are ways to do it involving taking the libraries and dependencies from another machine, copying them to the right place and making the appropriate symlinks but it's involved. I'll wait ....