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06 March 2014

562. Pulling in glibc >=2.14 from testing to stable: apt-pinning

Mixing releases is dangerous and can lead to broken systems.

Having said that, increasingly a lot of programs seem to rely on glibc >=2.14, and wheezy (current stable) only has 2.13.

Apt-pinning:

Edit the following files:
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian wheezy-backports main
deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian jessie main contrib non-free

/etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 10

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900

Then run 
sudo apt-get update
Installation

Installing glibc >=2.13 from testing 
sudo apt-get install -t testing libc6-dev


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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 September, 2014 05:15

    Thanks, this solution worked perfectly for me.

    I would like to note that instead of

    ...
    Package: *
    Pin: release a=testing
    ...

    you can use

    ...
    Package: *glibc*
    Pin: release a=testing
    ...

    If I understand correctly, this gave me the new libc version that i needed without updating everything during update. (I could easily be wrong, though!)

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  2. Max05 October, 2014 22:55

    Hello,

    I'm a newbie using Linux Debian Wheezy, and I would need some help, plz.

    When I run this:

    sudo apt-get install -t testing libc6-dev

    It suggests me to delete A LOT of packets. Is there a solution?

    Thanls

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  3. Anonymous22 December, 2014 01:44

    Works a treat, thanks

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  4. Anonymous21 February, 2015 10:18

    works. needed this to get eclipse dev working

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