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upgrade of libc





Hi,

I wish to upgrade to a higher libc to be able to run StarOffice
software. According to theirs notes, a libc-5.4.4 or newer is
required.

I currently use libc-5.3.12-8 on Redhat 4.0 with kernel upgraded to
2.0.30.

My question is - Should I upgrade to newer libc, or to glibc ? (new
Linux kernels relies on glibc, libc is out !) ?.

1) Is a libc / glibc update requires special other packages update ?, do
I need to get a newer kernel tree, and rebuild it ?.

2) I know there are people in the group that had tried and run
StarOffice, I'd appreciate any help from you guys.

3) Is there an "rpm" source of this libc package ? (I didn't find it in
GCC sites, hardly found libc-5.4.7 - only in "diffs" format, not as a
whole package).

Thanks in advance,

	Yossi A.