Locating and installing packages

Question

Recently installed Oracle Linux to host Oracle BI. Going through the BI software requirements, we have a list of software packages that are required. running 'rpm -q -a' to get a list of all installed packages, I see that I am missing several. Where do l locate the missing packages and where should they be placed on my system in order to install them with rpm? For instance, following the instruction in the BI installation guide, I get the following:
[root]# rpm -q -a |grep compat-db >> package_list;view package_list
[root]# rpm -ivh sysstat-4.0.7-4.EL3.3
error: open of sysstat-4.0.7-4.EL3.3 failed: No such file or directory
my system is :
[root]# uname -a
Linux <mask server name> 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jun 5 23:25:19 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Also ...
Another item in the software requirements says 'If the hugemem kernel is used .....'
So, how do I determine if it that applies to me?

Answer 1

kpackage ?
[root]# kpackage
-bash: kpackage: command not found
okay, maybe it's not in my PATH
[root]# find / -name kpackage -exec ls -l {} \;
[root]#
(no kpackage found)
after copying all of the rpms from cd to /pkgs, I was able to install most of the additional required packages. Note the following:
[root@<my server> tmp]# cd /pkgs
[root@<my server> pkgs]# pwd
/pkgs
[root@<my server> pkgs]# ls -l openmotif*
-r-xr-Sr-t 1 root root 1374499 Dec 26 15:30 openmotif22-2.2.3-18.i386.rpm
-r-xr-Sr-t 1 root root 1392081 Dec 26 15:30 openmotif22-2.2.3-18.x86_64.rpm
-r-xr-Sr-t 1 root root 1575905 Dec 26 15:35 openmotif-2.3.0-0.3.el5.i386.rpm
-r-xr-Sr-t 1 root root 1599638 Dec 26 15:35 openmotif-2.3.0-0.3.el5.x86_64.rpm
-r-xr-Sr-t 1 root root 3069258 Dec 26 15:35 openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.3.el5.i386.rpm
-r-xr-Sr-t 1 root root 3210287 Dec 26 15:35 openmotif-devel-2.3.0-0.3.el5.x86_64.rpm
(The requirements list specified 'openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.4, so let's try ...
[root@<my server> pkgs]# rpm -i openmotif22-2.2.3-18.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libXp.so.6()(64bit) is needed by openmotif22-2.2.3-18.x86_64
[root@<my server> pkgs]# ls -l pdksh*
ls: pdksh*: No such file or directory
[root@<my server> pkgs]# ls -l gnome-libs*
ls: gnome-libs*: No such file or directory
[root@<my server> pkgs]# ls -l xscreensaver*
ls: xscreensaver*: No such file or directory
BTW, I know I should be some 'privileged' user other than root, but am not sure how to create such a user. I do have a normal user account for myself. How would I go about making it 'privileged', and what privileges would that have. More importantly, what would it not have that root does?