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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs

Trying to install the IBM JDK 64bit I came across the following error:
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by ibm-java2-x86_64-sdk-5.0-8a.0.x86_64
It turns out that yum has a neat feature to show what package provides a given component:
yum whatprovides libstdc++.so.5
gave the answer, and
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
took care of installingthe missing package.

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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs

After an upgrade to CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 we got the following error:
Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
Public key for openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4.x86_64.rpm is not installed

It turns out that the key needs to be loaded and yum has not tried to load the key properly. The following manual key loading [...]

Tags: CentOS 5, red hat, RHEL 5, rpm, yum
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Posted on Wednesday, 7th January 2009 by Balazs

During an audit, we noticed that one of our Red Hat 5 / CentOS 5 servers wasn’t getting the security patches.  Upon running the yum update command manually, we discovered that it fails with:
Error: kernel conflicts with e2fsprogs < 1.37-4
The problem turned out to be the presence of a number if 32bit packages. To [...]

Tags: CentOS 5, redhat 5, RHEL, x86_64
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