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) Good, 'cause the OS has nothing to do with it! ;-) It's all the rpm package and what sits on top of that, yum. > 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. > <snip> HTH -- Bill