Q. regarding yum install - no package available

Question

Configuring OL 5.6 under VMworkstation on my laptop.
Created vm and am going through pre-reqs for installing Oracle rdbms 11.2. As standard practice I configured to go to oracle's public yum server and installed 'oracle-validated'. Then I double-checked the required packages listed in the Installation Guide. Two of them still weren't installed, so I tried to go for them individually with 'yum install <pkg name>. The first, numactl-devel, installed fine. However ...
[root@lnxsrv01 tmp]# yum install compat-libstdc++
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
No package compat-libstdc++ available.
Nothing to doyet when I go to http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL5/6/base/i386/, I see 'compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm' listed just fine.
my config - /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5-6.repo has enabled:
[ol5_u6_base]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever - U6 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL5/6/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1So what am I missing that it insists this package is not available?

Answer 1

Gokhan Atil wrote:
Hi Ed,
You should use yum list (not repolist - my bad). Here it is:
[root@oelgrid ~]# yum list | grep compat-libstdc
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
compat-libstdc++-296.i386                2.96-138                    installed 
compat-libstdc++-33.i386                 3.2.3-61                    installed 
[root@oelgrid ~]# yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Package compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to doRegards
Gokhan AtilInteresting. I got exactly the same results. So in the end, it looks like perhaps the required package is installed ... though the installation guide specified
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3 (32 bit)
So ....
[root@lnxsrv01 tmp]# rpm -q compat-libstdc++
package compat-libstdc++ is not installed
[root@lnxsrv01 tmp]# rpm -q compat-libstdc
package compat-libstdc is not installed
[root@lnxsrv01 ~]# yum list | grep compat-libstdc
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
compat-libstdc++-296.i386                2.96-138                    installed
compat-libstdc++-33.i386                 3.2.3-61                    installed
[root@lnxsrv01 ~]# yum install compat-libstdc
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
No package compat-libstdc available.
Nothing to do
[root@lnxsrv01 tmp]# yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Package compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do