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Yum glibc-common error on Virtuozzo CentOS VPS
Filed Under (Virtuozzo) by WebScHoLaR on 21-06-2009
Tagged Under : centos, glibc-dummy, Virtuozzo, yum
If you do a “yum update” inside Linux VPS and get this error:
Package glibc-dummy-centos-3 needs glibc-common = 2.3.2-95.30, this is not available.
Then on the VPS do
rpm –qa | grep glibc
it will list the glibc rpms installed on the VPS, look for an rpm glibc-dummy-centos-3 and erase it by
yum erase glibc-dummy-centos-3
glibc-dummy-centos-3 is developed by swsoft. glibc postinstall scripts create a 30-mb big
file /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.
The only purpose of this glibc-dummy-centos-3 package is to move the file to the template area in order to save 30MB of disk space per every centos-3 based VPS. It is save to deinstall this package from a VPS before upgrading glibc.
[...] I Google’d that and found that that it’s safe to remove (1, 2) from the RPM database. After doing that I was able to install the remaining [...]