How to upgrade glibc on Debian?

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 … Read more

How to force older debian to forget about DST Root CA X3 Expiration and use ISRG Root X1 – SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

disclaimer; I’m no security expert (I know things, but you do you). Make sure you understand what you do before applying whatever fix shared here Fix by upgrading your instances Upgrade your instances. This problem won’t happen on debian 9 or higher. In the following example, I had this problem on a ruby:2.4.1 docker image … Read more