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<H2><A NAME="getting"></A> <A NAME="s3">3. Getting the library.</A></H2>
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<P>The glibc 2 consists of the glibc package and three optional add-on
packages, LinuxThreads, Locale, and Crypt. The source can be found
at
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.6.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-linuxthreads-2.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-linuxthreads-2.0.6.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-localedata-2.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-localedata-2.0.6.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.6.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.6.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<P>It will take about 150 MB of disk space for the full compile and install.
The basic binary install of just the core library package is about 50 MB.
<P>Binary packages for 2.0.6 are not available. Version 2.0.4 binary packages
are available for i386 and m68k, and version 2.0.1 for the alpha can be
found at
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<LI>Intel x86:
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.4.bin.i386.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.4.bin.i386.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.4.bin.i386.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.4.bin.i386.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<LI>Alpha:
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.1.bin.alpha-linux.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.1.bin.alpha-linux.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.1.bin.alpha-linux.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.1.bin.alpha-linux.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<LI>m68k:
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.4-m68k-linux.bin.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-2.0.4-m68k-linux.bin.tar.gz</A></LI>
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<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.4-m68k-linux.bin.tar.gz">ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/glibc-crypt-2.0.4-m68k-linux.bin.tar.gz</A></LI>
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There are export restrictions on the crypt add-on. Non-US users should
get it from
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/gnu">ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/gnu</A>.
<P>If you are running a Red Hat distribution, you can get rpms for glibc 2 from
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/">ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/</A>. Glibc 2 is the primary C
library for the new Red Hat distribution 5.0.
<P>If you are running a Debian distribution, you can get the packages for glibc 2
from
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/">ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/</A>. The
files are named libc6. Glibc 2 is now part of the base package of the
hamm version of Debian, and will be the primary libc when Debian 2.0 is
released.
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