Configuring OL 5.6 under VMworkstation on my laptop.
Created vm and am going through pre-reqs for installing Oracle rdbms 11.2. As standard practice I configured to go to oracle's public yum server and installed 'oracle-validated'. Then I double-checked the required packages listed in the Installation Guide. Two of them still weren't installed, so I tried to go for them individually with 'yum install <pkg name>. The first, numactl-devel, installed fine. However ...
[root@lnxsrv01 tmp]# yum install compat-libstdc++
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with ULN.
ULN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
No package compat-libstdc++ available.
Nothing to do
yet when I go to http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL5/6/base/i386/, I see 'compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm' listed just fine.
my config - /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5-6.repo has enabled:
[ol5_u6_base]
name=Oracle Linux $releasever - U6 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL5/6/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
So what am I missing that it insists this package is not available?