On 4/28/06, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> wrote: > -----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. Ah. > </pedantic> > > This is particularly important to point out since apt actually uses > regex, while yum uses glob. Thank you much. > []s > > - -- > Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> > "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" > "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) >