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

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/

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.

You don't have a high enough version of libc6, that is causing the error.

From How to fix “/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found”? – Super User:

That means the program was compiled against glibc version 2.14, and it requires that version to run, but your system has an older version installed. You'll need to either recompile the program against the version of glibc that's on your system, or install a newer version of glibc (the "libc6" package in Debian).

So, you just need to upgrade your libc6 package. All versions of Ubuntu have at least version 2.15 because it's a faily important package (reference).

To upgrade it, use these commands in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6

You cannot update glibc on Centos 6 safely. However you can install 2.14 alongside 2.12 easily, then use it to compile projects etc. Here is how:

mkdir ~/glibc_install; cd ~/glibc_install 

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.tar.gz

tar zxvf glibc-2.14.tar.gz

cd glibc-2.14

mkdir build

cd build

../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14

make -j4

sudo make install

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/glibc-2.14/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"

That means the program was compiled against glibc version 2.14, and it requires that version to run, but your system has an older version installed. You'll need to either recompile the program against the version of glibc that's on your system, or install a newer version of glibc (the "libc6" package in Debian).

Debian has glibc 2.16 in the "experimental" repository, but recompiling the program is the safer option. Glibc is the library that everything depends on, so upgrading it can have far-reaching implications. Although there's probably nothing wrong with Debian's glibc 2.16 package, the fact that it's in the experimental repository means it hasn't received as much testing.

It is a real error, but a temporary one: it occurred because glibc-common was installed before glibc, so the updated C library itself wasn’t available yet when the updated build-locale-archive ran.

You could re-install glibc-common to re-run the post-installation setup:

rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.15-60.el6.x86_64.rpm

(I haven’t checked whether that is necessary, but it won’t do any harm.)

According to distrowatch, CentOS 6.10 shipped with GLIBC-2.12.

I used ldd --version

ldd is highly unreliable for anything (it will lie to you).

What matters is what version of /lib64/libc.so.6 you have. You can find out by running it, like so:

/lib64/libc.so.6

I've got this error with buildroot-2022.11 when executing make.

Ubuntu 20.04 - added this repo as described in the link

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libc6

It automatically installed 2.35 for me.