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>    So then I tried installing glibc and and got the following:
>    ...
>     rpm -i glibc-devel-2.0.7-29.i686.rpm
>    
>    package glibc-devel-2.0.7-29 is already installed
>    error: glibc-devel-2.0.7-29.i686.rpm cannot be installed

You want to upgrade:

    rpm -U glibc-devel-2.0.7-29.i686.rpm

I don't know why rpm complains instead of doing the write thing.
<joke> Shows that it was written by a C programmer and not a perl
programmer. </joke>

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>