Maintenance tools installation

[Rushishah]

HI,

I am going to install Oracle Applications R 12.1.1 on RHEL 5.3
One of the pre-requisites for the same is to have following maintenance tools installed on the OS.

ar,gcc,g++,ld,ksh,make and X Display server.

Please guide me how to install these maintenance tools on RHEL 5.3
Is it possible to install these tools during OS installation?
Also tell me how I can install them after completing OS installation if it is possible to do so.

Thanks,
Rushi

[aazkan]

HI,

I am going to install Oracle Applications R 12.1.1 on RHEL 5.3
One of the pre-requisites for the same is to have following maintenance tools installed on the OS.

ar,gcc,g++,ld,ksh,make and X Display server.

Please guide me how to install these maintenance tools on RHEL 5.3
Is it possible to install these tools during OS installation?
Also tell me how I can install them after completing OS installation if it is possible to do so.

Thanks,
Rushi

Hi,

Just a thought, if you're on RH and if you have a subscription with RH support you should ask them for assistance.

On the other hand, if you have yum or something simillar this should get you going:

yum install gcc

it ought/should install along make

but incase it doesnt you can get yum to look for the packages like so

yum whatprovides "*/bin/ld" or yum search ld|less and it outputs quite a number of results.

For your X, something like this should install X and it's dependecies

yum groupinstall "X Window System"

And yes you can install it during OS installation or post-install.

[Rushishah]

Don't have RH support

[Rushishah]

Kindly respond to my queries.

[Irithori]

If your systems dont have redhat network subscriptions and you want or need to stay with redhat, then buy subscriptions.

Another option is to reinstall with free redhat clones like CentOS or Scientific Linux.

[aazkan]

Hi,

Like Irithori said, go with a subscription or take a shot CentOS or SL.

If you're feeling adventurous, try the steps describe here:

- google search using centos repo under rhel

or

- go to centos wiki and search for Using CentOS Repositories on RHEL Machines

although I personally have not tried it so you might be on your own if things breaks apart.

Edit: I cant post link yet so you'd have to google it

[Rushishah]

Ok
I have one more query.
Do I need to get licence from RedHat for RHEL 5 if I am not going to require support?
Is it legal to download RHEL 5 and use it without paying any fees?
I don't want to use evaluation version.
Thanks,
Rushi

[aazkan]

I think it comes with a 30 days trial. Head on to RedHat, check the downloads.

Maybe there are other ways to download the non trial version from different source but tbh i'm not sure.

[Irithori]

Do I need to get licence from RedHat for RHEL 5 if I am not going to require support?

yes

Is it legal to download RHEL 5 and use it without paying any fees?

no.
You could buy subscriptions once and then let them expire.
In that case it would be legal to continue using it, but you loose access to updates.
Which imho makes it pointless, because a server needs to be up to date.


These links might help:
redhat.com | Red Hat Subscriptions
redhat.com | Products & Services

[atreyu]

Just another thought - all those packages should be available on the media that was used to install the RH server in the first place. Do you have access to it? If so, mount it and

yum localinstall /media/cdrom/5Server/gcc*

(or wherever the RPMS are on the DVD)

Also, CentOS 5.3 is binary compatible w/RH 5.3, so you can use the CentOS versions of the RPMS. Check out:

h*t*t*p://vault.centos.org/5.3/os/i386/CentOS/]Index of /5.3/os/i386/CentOS

(remove asterisks from URL...)