Peter Smith [gjfc] did eloquently scribble:
> What can I do to get
> libstdc++-3.4.5-2.i386.rpm
> installed?

use rpm -i --nodeps

That bypasses dependency checking
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On 24 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1164419250.666351.153120@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups. com>, Peter Smith [gjfc]
wrote:

>I'm trying to install Oracle on my RH box.

What version of Oracle on what version of Red Hat?

>The Oracle installer complained about some missing rpms:
>
>Checking for compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2; found Not found.
>Failed <<<<
>Checking for libstdc++devel-3.4.3-22.1; found Not found. Failed
><<<<
>Checking for openmotif-21-2.1.30-11; found Not found. Failed <<<<

That's cool. 'compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132' is Fedora Core 4, while
libstdc++devel-3.4.3-22 and openmotif-21-2.1.30 were the updated versions
supplied for Fedora Core _3_ Whoever created the Oracle rpm is doing
something "interesting", but I'm not sure what.

>Some of these were easy to solve via a quick trip to rpmseek.com

Maybe not the best idea ever. For a newbie, you want to gain some more
experience with the highly dynamic and widely varying world of Linux
before you go stepping off the end of the pier. You do that by staying
with packages directly supplied by your distribution until you have
some idea what's going on under those blankets.

>[root@ow2 software]# rpm -Uvh libstdc++-3.4.5-2.i386.rpm
>warning: libstdc++-3.4.5-2.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
>key ID 443e1821
>error: Failed dependencies:
> libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.1) is needed by (installed)
>kdelibs-3.5.4-0.1.fc5.i386

And that looks like an Fedora Core 5 box. Not compatible with Fedora
Core 3 or 4.

>I find that working with rpms is kind of confusing.
>I'm used to dealing with Solaris and FreeBSD which
>does not confuse me so much.

Do you routinely try to install pre-compiled Solaris 8 packages on Solaris
10 (and vice-versa)? How about OpenBSD or NetBSD binaries on your FreeBSD?

>What can I do to get
>libstdc++-3.4.5-2.i386.rpm
>installed?

[compton ~]$ zgrep ' libstdc++-3' rpms.fc* fc* | awk '{ print $1" "$9 }'
rpms.fc2.gz:-rw-r--r-- libstdc++-3.3.3-7.i386.rpm
fc3-updates.06.15.05:-rw-r--r-- libstdc++-3.4.3-22.fc3.i386.rpm
[compton ~]$

libstdc++-3.4.5 was not part of Fedora. You'd better ask whoever you
got the Oracle package from what version of Red Hat/Fedora it was meant
to operate with. It doesn't look like it was for your FC5.

Old guy

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<527m34-rjt.ln1@ridcully.ntlworld.com>, spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:

>Peter Smith [gjfc] did eloquently scribble:
>
>> What can I do to get
>> libstdc++-3.4.5-2.i386.rpm
>> installed?
>
>use rpm -i --nodeps

and hope that your backups are good

>That bypasses dependency checking

and may well torch your install, especially when using packages for
distributions two or three releases apart.

Andrew, you _might_ want to pay closer attention to those version numbers

Old guy

In comp.os.linux.setup Moe Trin :
> On 24 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
> <1164419250.666351.153120@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups. com>, Peter Smith [gjfc]
> wrote:

>>I'm trying to install Oracle on my RH box.

> What version of Oracle on what version of Red Hat?

[ complete mess of various rpm from various fc versions ]

> libstdc++-3.4.5 was not part of Fedora. You'd better ask whoever you
> got the Oracle package from what version of Red Hat/Fedora it was meant
> to operate with. It doesn't look like it was for your FC5.

Well spotted, to make a long story short I'd strongly suggest: to
the OP:

http://www.puschitz.com/

For some known to work detailed instructions to get oracle 9i/10g
running on RHEL, Fedora Core/etc.

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