As a long-time Calibre user, I try to keep my Calibre up to date.
Latest version of Calibre (7.17) has a hard dependency on glibc, and needs glibc 2.35, but my Rocky 9.4 system has glibc 2.34. I have a few updates I need to install, but glibc 2.35 is NOT one of them.
Anyone know when/if rocky will release glibc 2.35?
Thanks in advance!
Fred
No, the glibc version will not update for the life of the release.
It’s not clear to me why some devs won’t compile against numerous glibc versions to accommodate the different releases out there, especially LTS systems. You can try to use the flatpak version of calibre, but YMMV.
thanks for the prompt reply. I don’t especially want to use a bunch of flatpaks (or, any, for that matter), so I guess I’ll just stick with Calibre 7.15 for the time being.
Fred
clarification request, please…
When you say “life of the release” do you mean Rocky Linux 9, or do you mean Rocky Linux 9.4? There is a potentially big difference there…
Fred
Glibc will not change no matter what the point release is. That means it is the same glibc for Rocky 9 irrespective of 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, etc. Therefore the entire life of Rocky 9.
Rocky 9 has what RHEL 9 has, and for RHEL 9 Red Hat has based its glibc on something (2.34). Then they backport fixes and features to the RHEL version for the lifetime of RHEL 9. See Security Backporting Practice - Red Hat Customer Portal and What is backporting and how does it affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux? - Red Hat Customer Portal
Some less critical packages do get rebased, but glibc is too core to change that much. That is the stability principle of Enterprise Linux.
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