I heard I can do it using apt-get install libc6, but I need to add something to /etc/apt/sources.list to receive the newest glibc version. What should I do?
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 eglibc
package:
apt-get -t sid install libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libc6-dbg
IMPORTANT
After done updating libc6
, restart 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.
Hope this helps. It took me a while to figure out.