Unable to upgrade to glibc2.4 using yum

[old_as_a_fossil]

I have glibc 2.3 installed.
sh-3.00$ rpm -qa|grep glibc
glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.39
glibc-2.3.4-2.39
compat-glibc-2.3.2-95.30
glibc-profile-2.3.4-2.39
glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.39
compat-glibc-headers-2.3.2-95.30
glibc-utils-2.3.4-2.39
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.39
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.100.EL

I want to upgrade it to 2.4 because otherwise I'm not able to install Adobe Flash player.
When I say
yum install glibc it says

Setting up repositories
base [1/3]
y-required [2/3]
adobe-linux-i386 [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

Then I downloaded the rpm file and tried like this:
yum install glibc-2.4-8.i386.rpm
and it says
Setting up repositories
base [1/3]
y-required [2/3]
adobe-linux-i386 [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Examining glibc-2.4-8.i386.rpm: glibc - 2.4-8.i386
glibc-2.4-8.i386.rpm: does not update installed package.
Nothing to do

What should I do to get it done?

[coopstah13]

lots of things depend on glibc in linux, i would really recommend against installing a newer version because you could break a lot of things in your system

glibc2.3 leads me to believe you are using either FC6 or RHEL/CentOS4. You should upgrade to latest in this case.

[old_as_a_fossil]

Upgrade to latest of RHEL you mean ? And that it comes with glibc 2.4 by default?

[coopstah13]

RHEL5 uses glibc2.5 I believe.

[old_as_a_fossil]

So it means nobody with RHEL 4 uses Adobe Flash in their browser? (installation of flash says it requires glibc >= 2.4)

[coopstah13]

RHEL4 isn't meant as a desktop distribution, which adobe flash is targeted toward the desktop. We give thanks they support linux at all.

[Lost_scrib]

You still can use the basic rpm application to install glibc 2.4, whatever OS you are using, see documentation pages.

It would be a long way downloading all the required packages and (force) installing them and I believe you will end up in a half-upgraded state. I would better upgrade the OS and it will bring the new glibc itself.



Well, looking again at your post... maybe you should try to
yum upgrade
instead of
yum install