Adobe debug flash-player 10 needs newer glibc on Ubuntu Karmic

Question

Hi all, I'm trying to install the latest debug flashplayer available here: 
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/f...nux_dev.tar.gz linked from this page 
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html I follow the embedded instructions and this is the error: 
root@vostro-ubuntu:~# /home/berrie/work/download/install_flash_player_10_linux/flashplayer-installer
[: 258: closing paren expected ERROR: Your glibc library is older than 2.3.
Please update your glibc library. root@vostro-ubuntu:~# aptitude search glibc
p eglibc-source - Embedded GNU C Library: sources
v glibc-2.10-1 -
p glibc-doc - GNU C Library: Documentation
v glibc-doc-reference -
v glibc-pic -
root@vostro-ubuntu:~#  I'm running Ubuntu Karmic Koala and it is up to date.  Could it be that the flash installer parses the version number wrong as previously it was glibc-2.9-1, a '9' after the dot, now there is a '1'. Seems daft. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers, BB
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Answer 1

The check_glibc() function leaves a bit to be desired:
# check glibc
check_glibc () {
  ICONV=`iconv --version | sed -e '2,$d'`
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "no-iconv"
  else
    ICONVVER=`echo "$ICONV" | awk '{print $4}'`
    GLIBCMAJOR=`echo $ICONVVER | cut -d'.' -f1`
    GLIBCMINOR=`echo $ICONVVER | cut -d'.' -f2`
    if [ \( $GLIBCMAJOR -ge $MIN_GLIBCMAJOR \) -a \( $GLIBCMINOR -ge $MIN_GLIBCMINOR \) ]; then
      echo "valid-glibc"
    else
      echo "invalid-glibc"
    fi
  fi
First of all '{print $4}' needs to change to '{print $3}' to make it work for now. Once glibc 3.0 hits the shelves you have even bigger problems as according to this snippet both major and minor version numbers need to be bigger than their corresponding minimal numbers. So 3.0 isn't newer than 2.3 according to this code.
The correct pseudo code would be:
if ( (MAJOR > MIN_MAJOR) || (MAJOR == MIN_MAJOR && MINOR >= MIN_MINOR) ) then version is ok