How to upgrade glibc from version 2 13 to 2 15 on Debian

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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

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Your script contains errors as well  for example if you have dos2unix installed your install works but if you don t like I did then it will fail with dependency issues   I found this by accident as I was making a script file of this to give to my friend who is new to Linux and because I made the scripts on windows I directed him to install it  at the time I did not have dos2unix installed thus I got errors   here is a copy of the script I made for your solution but have dos2unix installed      bin sh echo  deb http   ftp debian org debian sid main   gt  gt   etc apt sources list apt-get update apt-get -t sid install libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dbg echo  Please remember to hash out sid main from your sources list   etc apt sources list    this script has been tested on 3 machines with no errors

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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

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In fact you cannot do it easily right now  at the time I am writing this message   I will try to explain why   First of all  the glibc is no more  it has been subsumed by the eglibc project  And  the Debian distribution switched to eglibc some time ago  see here and there and even on the glibc source package page   So  you should consider installing the eglibc package through this kind of command   apt-get install libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libc6-dbg   Replace amd64 by the kind of architecture you want  look at the package list here    Unfortunately  the eglibc package version is only up to 2 13 in unstable and testing  Only the experimental is providing a 2 17 version of this library  So  if you really want to have it in 2 15 or more  you need to install the package from the experimental version  which is not recommended   Here are the steps to achieve as root    Add the following line to the file  etc apt sources list   deb http   ftp debian org debian experimental main  Update your package database   apt-get update  Install the eglibc package   apt-get -t experimental install libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libc6-dbg  Pray      Well  that s all folks

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