Re: Help with installing packages for Oracle 10g

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: 
> I am trying to install Oracle client 10g (10.2.0) on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 
> system. 
> 
> 'rpm -q make gcc glibc etc' reveals some packages as "not installed", 
> yet a yum install <package name> consistently returns Nothing to do. Yum 
> list available <package name> yields nothing needed. 
> 
> If rpm -q <list of packages> lists some that are "not installed" but 
> every variant of yum install and yum list I've tried and googled claiims 
> nothing more needs to be installed, either the OS is misreporting (I 
> doubt that) or I'm missing something that is not easily being revealed, 
> or that I haven't used in a long time and outright forgetting. 
> 
> I still need (per rpm -q): 
> 
> compat-gcc 
> compat-gcc-c++ 
> compat-libstsdc++-devel 
> openmotif21 
> gnome-libs