Installing updated glibc: Conflicts with old install

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I should know better, but:

I can't get anything to download with my current version of gnutella. This
is bad because I have realized I don't have a copy of The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valence.

So:
I want to install a new version of gnutella but:
I went to the web site and they recommend limewire which I downloaded but which:
Requires a new version of  Java which, which I downloaded but which:
Requires an updated glibc..

(And then they wonder why windows is still popular on the desktop. What
windows user would tolerate this for 3 seconds? Imagine just trying all
these downloads on a telephone modem, rant, rant, rant.)

Anyway, I downloaded the four libraries from the Caldera 2.4 current rpm's.
They are:
glibc-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-static-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm
glibc-localedata-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm     

I assume these are all I need. When I tried to install the first one
with rpm -i , I got zillions of conflicts with the prior installation
of glibc. I am vaguely aware that glibc is important for the functioning
of my computer, so I am not sure if I should just rpm -e those offending
installed rpm's.

I ran rpm -U glibc-localedata-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm       
and that seemed to work.

Then, I tried rpm -U glibc-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm     
and got this:

root at jhammer6 jlh]# rpm -U glibc-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        glibc = 2.1.2 is needed by glibc-devel-2.1.2-3           

My current version of glibc is :
[root at jhammer6 jlh]# ls /lib/libc-*
/lib/libc-2.1.2.so               

So, the new version says the old version needs a somewhat newer version of
the old version.

I am basically without a clue.

Any insight appreciated.

Just in case I have really hosed my system, I am not going to turn it off
ever again.

Thanks
Joel