Might be a documentation issue. I don't think libgcc_s1 exists
in the redhat 8 world. Same for ncurses-utils.
I found a reference for an older version in redhat 7 (marked as outdated).
rpmfind lists only occurrances for Suse Linux instead.
My suggestion: Give it a try to run without.
You can also check if all the dependencies are present by using the ldd command
on each binary file which is running.
$ cd <INFORMIXDIR>/bin
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${INFORMIXDIR}/lib:${INFORMIXDIR}/lib/esql
$ ldd *
You will see if any required library is missing on your system.
This might be the case for some utilities which use external software, but
should not produce any "missing" output for the informix standard binaries
(such as oninit, onstat, onmode, dbaccess etc.)
For my installation (not running redhat). This e.g. gives a "not found"
output for libcurses.so.5 for nsradmin and ism_watch
and missing libXm.so.4 for ipload.
These are all utilities we are not using at all, so we will won't run into any issues.
Marcus Haarmann
Original Message:
Sent: 6/9/2022 3:32:00 AM
From: Sh To
Subject: RE: Informix 14.10.FC8 on RHEL 8.6 installation - missing packages ?
Hi
Indeed during the first try i had this message
Prerequisite Verification Check
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One or more prerequisite system libraries are not installed on your computer.
Install libncurses.so.5 and then restart the IBM Informix installation
And according to advice I received I linked libncurses.so.5 to libncurses.so.6.1
After that i was able to install informix.
I didn't have message about libtinfo.so.5
However, there remains the problem of the "missing packages"
libgcc_s1 and ncurses-utils and i don't feel comfortable ignoring them.
Thanks
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Samuel To
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 09, 2022 03:10 AM
From: Markus Holzbauer
Subject: Informix 14.10.FC8 on RHEL 8.6 installation - missing packages ?
Hi Samuel,
I think the informix installer needs libncurses.so.5 and libtinfo.so.5 to run.
The workaround for that is :
# cd /usr/lib64
# ln -s libncurses.so.6.1 libncurses.so.5
# ln -s libtinfo.so.6.1 libtinfo.so.5
Cheers,
Markus
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Markus Holzbauer
Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 09, 2022 01:15 AM
From: Sh To
Subject: Informix 14.10.FC8 on RHEL 8.6 installation - missing packages ?
Hello,
In the doc i see
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 8.0 (Kernel: 4.18.0-80,
Glibc: 2.28-42). The following packages have to be installed:
libaio-0.3.110
libgcc_s1-8.2.1
libstdc++6-8.2.1
ncurses-utils-6.1-7
pam-1.3.1-4
elfutils-libelf-0.174-6
When i try to install libgcc_s1 and ncurses-utils I get
Error: Unable to find a match
and yum whatprovides <package> gives
Error: No Matches found
But, I have in the system
libgcc-8.5.0-10.el8.x86_64
ncurses-6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64
Is it OK ?
Thanks
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Samuel
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