Re: [Snort-users] glibc dependency errors installing snort

"Andy" <andy@page55.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I'm having problems installing snort, I'm getting glibc dependency errors.
> I running RedHat 7.3, trying to install snort-2.1.3-1.i386.rpm
>
> I can't find a newer version of glibc other than 2.2.5 and really don't know
> what I'm doing anyway.
>
> Am I having these problems because I'm running RH 7.3? Does snort 2.1.3-1
> run on RH 7.3?
>
> Should I be installing a different package?
>
> [root@tunes snort]# rpm -ivh [root@tunes snort]# rpm -ivh
> snort-2.1.3-1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)   is needed by snort-2.1.3-1

I'd go to Fedora Core 1 at least if you can. I've done an upgrade from
7.3 to FC1 and it went OK, and snort 2.2.0 is happily working on that
machine.

Otherwise, try getting the appropriate rpms from here:
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/snort/

cheers,
 Jamie
-- 
James Riden / j.riden@massey.ac.nz / Systems Security Engineer
Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ.
GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/



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