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Why won't glibc be maintained also on older versions of Debain ?
How do i get a newer version of glibc? (2.38 or above?)
I was able to install libc6 2.17 in Debian Wheezy by editing the recommendations in perror's answer:
IMPORTANT
You need to exit out of your display manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1.
Then you can stop x (slim) with sudo /etc/init.d/slim stop
(replace slim with mdm or lightdm or whatever)
Add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main
Should be changed to:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main
Then follow the rest of perror's post:
Update your package database:
apt-get update
Install the glibc package:
apt-get -t sid install libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libc6-dbg
IMPORTANT
After updating libc6, restart the computer, and you should comment out or remove the sid source you just added (deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main), or else you risk upgrading your whole distro to sid.
Your script contains errors as well, for example if you have dos2unix installed your install works but if you don't like I did then it will fail with dependency issues.
I found this by accident as I was making a script file of this to give to my friend who is new to Linux and because I made the scripts on windows I directed him to install it, at the time I did not have dos2unix installed thus I got errors.
here is a copy of the script I made for your solution but have dos2unix installed.
#!/bin/sh
echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get -t sid install libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dbg
echo "Please remember to hash out sid main from your sources list. /etc/apt/sources.list"
this script has been tested on 3 machines with no errors.
I've updated to Debian 12 and found out that programs that I compile won't work on Debian 11, because the Glibc version on Debian 11 lag behind.
Is it intentional that in older versions of Debian the glibc isn't get updated ?
Glibc is a cruical part for compatability, and the fact that it is only backwards compatible means that the moment a developer update to the latest version of linux and compile its binaries, his program become obsolete for older versions of debian.
It turns out I was just not familiar enough with apt-get. I managed to install the necessary glibc version by issuing the following command:
apt-get install libc-bin=2.13-38+deb7u4 libc6=2.13-38+deb7u4
I even downgraded it and everything works okay. Core dump analysis works now.
I wouldn't install it, but unpack it in some work directory and refer to it via LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Downgrading your libc6 package can be quite problematic.
Your customer should be able to supply you with their libc6 version. It might, however, be advisable to use the libc6-dbg package which includes debug symbols. Unfortunately the 7u4 version is an older one and not available anymore.
Basically im trying to run a game but it requires at least glibc 2.38 but it seems debian only offers 2.36 at the moment. Any way i can get a newer vesion of it?
EDIT: ended up just downloading the windows version of the game and running it with wine, im an idiot and thought i was having a problem with the sound when i first downloaded, that's why i tried the linux binary, but when i ran it with wine again i found out that the game came muted by default and that i had to press + to get the volume up