Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Install 64 Bit Package via Yum

I had a task to install Ralus (Backup_exec agent) on linux. I had an issue where there is incompatibility issue on the c compiler. I had to install a compiler that works with the Ralus. I did yum install on a certain package as follows:

yum install libstdc++.so.5

The above command did install the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 but still the Ralus didn't work. Until I realized that I am running 64 bit machine so I had to do force install of 64 bit of the compat-libstdc package.

yum install compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.x86_64

So the lesson here if ever there is a necessity or something happened where it didn't download and install the package in 64 bit, do as follows:

yum install packagename.x86_64

And you should be good.

Hope you find this helpful. Thanks, Cheers and God Bless!!!