-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEUj7LpdyWzQ5b5ckRAtx2AKCpYrA/FLLwHaDmVf94N1VM+8maJgCfXDH6 zuY5y7lbvfW6JewErmjU4uU= =bEn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----