on 6-5-2008 11:17 AM MHR spake the following: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:56 AM, William L. Maltby > <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 23:27 -0400, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: >>> I am trying to install Oracle client 10g (10.2.0) on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 >>> system. >>> >>> 'rpm -q make gcc glibc etc' reveals some packages as "not installed", yet >>> a yum install <package name> consistently returns Nothing to do. Yum list >>> available <package name> yields nothing needed. >>> >>> If rpm -q <list of packages> lists some that are "not installed" but every >>> variant of yum install and yum list I've tried and googled claiims nothing >>> more needs to be installed, either the OS is misreporting (I doubt that) >>> or I'm missing something that is not easily being revealed, or that I >>> haven't used in a long time and outright forgetting. >> A common error is to not give the correct name to rpm. Try >> >> rpm -qa | grep <part of the pkg name> >> >> I often forget to add such trivial stuff as ".i386" to the package name. >> >> Ditto for yum. Just do a yum list all into some file and then view the >> file. >> >> Also, yum list all into a file might be useful. It shows installed and >> available. >> > > I have a couple of aliases you might find useful for this: > > alias rg='rpm -qa | grep -i' > alias yg='yum list | grep -i' > > They're not terribly efficient, but I don't use them that often, > either. Also, I have a setting in my .rpmmacros (or .rpmrc) file at > home that specifies to list the machine type along with the file name > - I can't remember it (or find it) right now, but I got it here, so > someone knows.... > > (Figures that I wouldn't have it here....) > > HTH > > mhr %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch} in your .rpmmacros file -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080605/ba1fb9ea/attachment-0004.sig>