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q. regarding yum install - no package available

EdStevensJun 6 2011 — edited Jun 8 2011
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?

Comments

unknown-951199

>Update sys.props$ set value$='UTF8' where name='NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET' Or name = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';

Above renders null & void any support contract between you & Oracle.


I hope you have a good backup that was completed before your fatal modification.


jgarry

Tom says it best: https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1224836384599#16453523492091

Hemant K Chitale

See the strongly worded warning in Oracle Support Note "Changing Or Choosing the Database Character Set ( NLS_CHARACTERSET ) (Doc ID 225912.1)"

Hemant K Chitale

Srini Chavali-Oracle 
To update Character set in Oracle.


Update sys.props$ set value$='UTF8' where name='NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET' Or name = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';

As stated, this is not supported - it will corrupt your database beyond repair. You will have to restore from a good backup taken before this statement was issued.

The supported methods are documented -

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch11charsetmig.htm#NLSPG467

Database Migration Assistant for Unicode - Overview

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