Patches of Linux for IBM POWER series server
 

Hi,

I am in the proicess of installing two servers in my office. One is an IBM POWER series server which required a special version of Linux from Redhat (RHF0329AP).

Now i am looking for the required patches for installing oracle application in that.

I am giving below the details of the installed OS and required patches.

Database Server – IBM p52A Series

OS installed
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Standard(For IBM POWER Series) – RHF0329AP

Required patches

1. compat-db-4.1.25-9
2. compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3
3. compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3
4. compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5
5. compat-libcwait-2.0-2
6. compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.7.2
7. compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
8. compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
9. xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL
10. xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-23.EL

The following required component must be installed manually:
openmotif-2.1.30-x

I cannot get patches that suits this version of LINUX. Please help me.


Application Server - IBM eServer xSeries 346

OS installed
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 3
Upgrade – 6 Beta

Required patches

1. compat-db-4.0.14-5.1
2. compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
3. compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128
4. compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.128
5. compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.128
6. setarch-1.3-1
7. pdksh-5.2.14-21 (Oracle Discoverer)

The following component is also required:

openmotif-2.1.30-x

Please tell me from where I can get these at the earliest.

Sony

RedHat AS is a commercial variant. You should have support from RedHat on it especially if it is a "special version". (Is this a PowerPC server? What makes it require a "special version"?)

RedHat Network is the support site for RedHat.

https://rhn.redhat.com/

Failing that you can always download the source for these packages and do the configure and make commands they require to build some specific to your server. I'd definitely explore the RedHat support angle first though.

Also you have verified the packages don't already exist with the rpm -qa command correct.

For exmaple: rpm -qa |grep compat-db

It may already be there but be a later version.

By the way - Oracle is really bad at telling you what you need based on what they had on their test server rather than based on what is truly required. (I've seen them give shared memory max guidelines that were larger than the total memory on a server because their test server was huge.) During the Oracle linking it will give warnings if it doesn't find exact version but if you have a later version it almost always is backwardly compatible so will work despite the warnings. We see this often on our systems.

Thanks! I am corresponding with RedHat support..
 

Hi jlightner,

Thank you very much for your support. I am corresponding with Redhat support. Hope to resolve the issue today.

Regards

Sony