GitHub issue #2279: Compatibility with Ubuntu 18 and GLIBC 2.27?
State: closed | Created: 2021-04-28T22:08:07Z

## Describe the bug
For use on Ubuntu systems, it seems that datasets requires GLIBC 2.29. However, Ubuntu 18 runs with GLIBC 2.27 and it seems [non-trivial to upgrade GLIBC to 2.29 for Ubuntu 18 users](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-install-glibc-2-29-or-higher-in-ubuntu-18-04). 

I'm not sure if there is anything that can be done about this, but I'd like to confirm that using huggingface/datasets requires either an upgrade to Ubuntu 19/20 or a hand-rolled install of a higher version of GLIBC.

## Steps to reproduce the bug
1. clone the transformers repo
2. move to examples/pytorch/language-modeling
3. run example command:
```python run_clm.py     --model_name_or_path gpt2     --dataset_name wikitext     --dataset_config_name wikitext-2-raw-v1     --do_train     --do_eval     --output_dir /tmp/test-clm```


## Expected results
As described in the transformers repo.

## Actual results
```Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_clm.py", line 34, in <module>
    from transformers import (
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/__init__.py", line 2487, in __getattr__
    return super().__getattr__(name)
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/file_utils.py", line 1699, in __getattr__
    module = self._get_module(self._class_to_module[name])
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/__init__.py", line 2481, in _get_module
    return importlib.import_module("." + module_name, self.__name__)
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/models/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    from . import (
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/models/layoutlm/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from .tokenization_layoutlm import LayoutLMTokenizer
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/models/layoutlm/tokenization_layoutlm.py", line 19, in <module>
    from ..bert.tokenization_bert import BertTokenizer
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/models/bert/tokenization_bert.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ...tokenization_utils import PreTrainedTokenizer, _is_control, _is_punctuation, _is_whitespace
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/tokenization_utils.py", line 26, in <module>
    from .tokenization_utils_base import (
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/transformers/tokenization_utils_base.py", line 68, in <module>
    from tokenizers import AddedToken
  File "/home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tokenizers/__init__.py", line 79, in <module>
    from .tokenizers import (
ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /home/tginart/anaconda3/envs/huggingface/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tokenizers/tokenizers.cpython-37m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so)
```

## Versions
Paste the output of the following code:
```
- Datasets: 1.6.1
- Python: 3.7.10 (default, Feb 26 2021, 18:47:35) 
[GCC 7.3.0]
- Platform: Linux-4.15.0-128-generic-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid

```