How do I know which binutils I needs to instal

[Tunner]

Hi All,

How do I know which binutils I needs to instal? I have linux Linux 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Tue Apr 29 13:16:15 EDT 2008 x86_64.

there are many binutils available at gnu.org in "software" in "binutils".
I am not able to identify which for my machine.

thank in advance for you reply.

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
Why don't you try the binutils that are provided for you in your system repos? You can probably install the latest version from Gnu.org if you just want to do it manually.

[Rubberman]

Since you seem to be using some derivative of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (el5 x86_64), you should use the ones available in the package manager yum. Execute this command as root: yum install binutils.x86_64

[MikeTbob]

Yeah, what he said!

[Tunner]

Hi Rubberman

First , Thanks for your response.

I have used command "yum install binutils.x86_64" get following message.

Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package binutils.x86_64 available.
Nothing to do

[reed9]

I don't use RHEL systems at all, but it would be odd if they included in the architecture in the package name. Instead of binutils.x86_64, try just binutils.

You can also do a search

yum search binutils

Managing Software with yum

[Rubberman]

Hi Rubberman

First , Thanks for your response.

I have used command "yum install binutils.x86_64" get following message.

Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package binutils.x86_64 available.
Nothing to do

Try "yum install binutils". If you still cannot get it, you need to change your yum repositories since it appears that you don't have a valid support contract with Red Hat. You can change your base repositories to CentOS instead.

[coopstah13]

I'm pretty sure binutils package is part of the base system install on RHEL and should already be installed.

Check with rpm -q binutils

[Tunner]

sorry for late reply

I have run rpm -q binutils and it show version as "binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5" . But this binutils install by me manually earlier, before I started this thread/post. So I want to know is this binutils is proper for my install linux.

or if it is not now how do I uninstalled it?

[coopstah13]

if you installed one manually there should have been 2 listed when running the rpm -q command

i still maintain that binutils is a package that is installed by default as it contains ld and many other things