[CentOS] compat-libstdc ++

Fri Apr 28 16:11:55 UTC 2006
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>

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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:08:38PM -0400, Nat Gross wrote:
> On 4/27/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/27/06, Nat Gross <nat101l at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi;
> > > As a prerequisite for IBM's db2 Viper they say:
> > > "For RHEL, all available compat-libstdc ++ RPM-packages must be installed."
> > >
> > > Can anyone please advise how to achieve this quickly via yum? (64bit
> > > software running on 64bit centos 4.3.)
> >
> > You may want to consult the man page for yum, and/or the documentation
> > at http://centos.org/docs/4/ about yum.
> >
> > yum list compat\* will show you the available compat packages. Install
> > the ones you need.
> Thanks. I didn't know that I can use regex patterns for yum. It's much
> simpler now.

<pedantic>
Actually, you can't.

That is not regex, but glob pattern.

glob : compat*
regex: compat.*

The \ is just an escape because of the shell.
</pedantic>

This is particularly important to point out since apt actually uses
regex, while yum uses glob.

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