How to upgrade glibc on Debian?

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I was able to install libc6 2.17 in Debian Wheezy by editing the recommendations in perror’s answer:

IMPORTANT
You need to exit out of your display manager by pressing CTRL–ALT–F1.
Then you can stop x (slim) with sudo /etc/init.d/slim stop

(replace slim with mdm or lightdm or whatever)

Add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main

Should be changed to:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main

Then follow the rest of perror’s post:

Update your package database:

apt-get update

Install the glibc package:

apt-get -t sid install libc6-amd64 libc6-dev libc6-dbg

IMPORTANT
After done updating libc6, restart computer, and you should comment out or remove the sid source you just added (deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main), or else you risk upgrading your whole distro to sid.

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