On 05/12/2021 06.02, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-12-04 17:58:28 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|On 05/12/2021 00.24, Michael Kasimir wrote: |> Does anyone know which package: |> |> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) |> |> is and what it makes? | |It does all. | |cer@Telcontar:~> locate libc.so.6 |/lib/libc.so.6 |/lib64/libc.so.6 |cer@Telcontar:~> | | |cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qfi /lib64/libc.so.6 |Name : glibc |Version : 2.26 |Release : lp152.26.9.1 |Architecture: x86_64 |Install Date: 2021-10-18T20:27:09 CEST |Group : System/Libraries |Size : 6984689 |License : LGPL-2.1+ AND SUSE-LGPL-2.1+-with-GCC-exception AND GPL-2.0+ |Signature : RSA/SHA256, 2021-10-12T16:34:39 CEST, Key ID | b88b2fd43dbdc284 Source RPM : glibc-2.26-lp152.26.9.1.src.rpm |Build Date : 2021-10-12T16:31:11 CEST |Build Host : lamb08 |Relocations : (not relocatable) |Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org |Vendor : openSUSE |URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html |Summary : Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library) |Description : |The GNU C Library provides the most important standard libraries used |by nearly all programs: the standard C library, the standard math |library, and the POSIX thread library. A system is not functional |without these libraries. |Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.2 |cer@Telcontar:~>
Of course, all distributions have this package, in some version. It is as crucial as the kernel. I simply tried to show a generic method to find out what a library does :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)