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Hi. I was looking on the forums but I did not find the answer to my question.

I am trying to install Oracle 11gR2 (64 bit) on Fedora 14 (64 bit) on a virtual machine VMWare Workstation 7.1.

When OUI checks software and hardware requirements, some errors were found. Those errors are related with missing packages.

The missing packages are unixODBC, unixODBC-devel, libaio and some others... but the i386 version!!!.

I checked those packages, and I already have the version i686 and x86_64 version for all of them.

I also tried the commands such as yum install unixODBC.i386, but the package does not exists. I tried to install them manually, but there is a damned hell whith dependencies.

I tried to install Oracle ignoring those errors, but at the end, I got the following error: Oracle Configuration Manager failed. I do not know if this is related to the missing packages. I checked the log files, but there is no further information about the error.

What can I do? Is it actually possible to install i386 packages on the 64-bit architecture? I read in the forums that it is possible but not in all cases (and I do not know what those cases are)

Thank you