needs updated glibc package version 3.4.15 or later for RHEL6

Question

I want to upgrade my current running applications to latest version. But due to some package issue i am unable to install them.

I get common error in that: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found.
When i tried to update glibc package i get following output:

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[root@agastya ~]# yum install glibc
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
epel/metalink | 3.8 kB 00:00 
epel | 4.3 kB 00:00 
epel/primary_db | 5.0 MB 01:33 
epel-testing/metalink | 3.8 kB 00:00 
epel-testing | 4.3 kB 00:00 
epel-testing/primary_db | 295 kB 00:03 
rhel-x86_64-server-6 | 1.8 kB 00:00 
rhel-x86_64-server-6/primary | 11 MB 02:02 
rhel-x86_64-server-6 8816/8816
Setting up Install Process Package glibc-2.12-1.80.el6_3.6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do 
[root@agastya ~]# 

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Should i need to add some more repositories?
If yes, how?

Solution

glibc-2.12-1.80.el6_3.6 is the latest updated package for glibc in RHEL6. I am certain that a package like glibc will not be rebased to v3. If you are doing this on a production RHEL server, the simple rule is don't, don't do it.

For testing purpose, feel free to add the fedora repo or rpmforge or whatever gives you the latest one. But, I am quite sure you will face hell lot of dependency problems and worst case, system might break.

Comments

[TPS]

Thank you Soham, that's fine. I am ready to take risk on this, but I am not able to find the correct repo for the same.

[ewwhite]

This is terrible advice.

[kungfupyndas]

ewwhite: i don´t think so. Why should i limit myself: it work´s.