Installation Error GLIB_2.9 not found

[conryf]

I'm installing calibre via command line on a server running Ubuntu Hardy LTS and it seems to install (via binary) fine but when I try to run it I get this error:

ImportError: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.9' not found (required by /opt/calibre/libQtCore.so.4)

I have installed libc6-dev and it didn't seem to help. Is there spme deependency I'm not seeing?

thanks in adavance for your help,

[kovidgoyal]

yes, the dependency is glibc >= 2.9

[conryf]

I'm sorry but I can't seem to figure out how to install it. The only references I've found online are to glib 2.0 a la the command:

sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-doc

I tried replacing 2.0 with 2.9 or 3.0 to no avail. Sorry but I'm kind of a newbie, your help is much appreciated.

[conryf]

sudo apt-get install libglib-dev also didn't seem to satisfy this requirement.

please help

[kovidgoyal]

I doubt Ubuntu Hardy has glibc 2.9 in its repositories. You need to upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu

[conryf]

Ok I upgraded to Jaunty. Still no luck. Output:


[prompt ~] sudo apt-get install libglib-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting libglib1.2-dev instead of libglib-dev
libglib1.2-dev is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
openssh-blacklist
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
[prompt ~] sudo apt-get install glibc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package glibc


any ideas?

[conryf]

ok I managed to install glib 2.9 by removing belocs-locales-bin

and now I get this:

[prompt ~] sudo calibre
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 46, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/gui2/__init__.py", line 18, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py", line 11, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 12, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py", line 418, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/output.py", line 18, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/writer.py", line 22, in <module>
File "ExtensionLoader_PyQt4_QtWebKit.py", line 12, in <module>
ImportError: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.10' not found (required by /opt/calibre/libQtNetwork.so.4)


argh! Now I need glib 2.10!? please help.

[kovidgoyal]

yes, you need glibc 2.10, it says so on the binary download instructions