[Howto] Installing latest stable glibc for extdb on Ubuntu 12.04

[wyattwic 38]

Hello,

 

A friend of mine approached me the other day asking how to get a up to date copy of glibc and its associated packages on Ubuntu 12.04 for use with extdb.   The easiest solution would be to update your OS to the latest stable, however this is not an option in most VMs.

 

Ubuntu 12.04 (Codename "Precise") has glibc version 2.13 available via the repositories, while extdb requires at least version 2.18.   This tutorial (more like me stammering drunk with notes) will cover installing version 2.21 or better, depending on what year your reading this.  This tutorial assumes your using SSH.

 

 

Step 1

With your favorate text editor, open /etc/apt/sources.list as sudo/root.   Below is an example if you use vim.

sudo su root -c "vi /etc/apt/sources.list"

Step 2

At the end of the file, add the following line to the document.  We will be deleting this after we get what we need.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu vivid main restricted universe

Save and close.

 

Step 3

Lets get to updating our sources.  DO NOT UPGRADE unless you know what your doing.   In most VM enviorments, mainly VZPP, a distribution upgrade will not be compatible within the system.   Why they do this, sometimes it feels like its just to piss me off.

Lets get started.   Run the following commands.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install libtirpc1 libnih-dbus1 libnih1 libc6-i386 libc6 libc6:i386

At this point we have updated the above packages to the newest available to the vivid release - At the time of this writing, version 2.21.  For clarification, of the six above, 5 are dependedancies for our libc6 package. 

 

Step 4

Lets clean up!   For safety sake, go back to step 2 and remove that line from the sources.list.   Afterwards run "sudo apt-get update" and your back to normal.

 

 

 

I hope this helps someone, this has been tested to be working on Ubuntu 12.04 with your run-of-the-mill Altis Life server, however I will be testing this with Version 67 of extdb soon!

 

[maihym 12]

Thanks for the tutorial man.