Dealing with RARs in Red Hat Linux
Wednesday, 13 January 2010When one installs rar in Red Hat Linux,
yum install rar
and then attempts to run rar
or unrar
, one is likely to get a failure with the diagnostic rar: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by rar)
In various fora, the recommendation has been to install a newer version of glibc or somesuch. Such updating would be a signally bad idea, likely to disable the operating system.
Instead, note that the rar
package came with rar_static
. Use that in place of rar
. (If it makes you happier, you could delete rar
and rename or alias rar_static
with rar
.)