Hi,
OS : Oracle Enter Prise Linux 6 (equivalent to RedHat)

I am in process to install oracle 10g on said OS.My process fails and after digging up , I came to know that some of the oracle libraries are compiled on 32-bit architecture and it require glibc-32 bit . also it require for gcc-32 bit.

Now i have downloaded all the required rpm for gcc-32bit . when I try to install glibc and its dependencies , it gives me error that newer version already exist.

Can you please tell me how can I install , Gcc-32bit(libgc, libstd-i386 etc) in parallel or standalone?

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[root@localhost rpm-32bit]# rpm -ivh glibc-2.3.2-95.37.i386.rpm
warning: glibc-2.3.2-95.37.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 0c98ff9d: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc-common = 2.3.2-95.37 2.3.2-95.37.i386
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[root@localhost rpm-32bit]# rpm -ivh glibc-common-2.3.2-95.37.i386.rpm
warning: glibc-common-2.3.2-95.37.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 0c98ff9d: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc > 2.3.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.2-95.37.i386
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[root@localhost rpm-32bit]# rpm -qa |grep glib

pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-13.el6.x86_64

poppler-glib-0.12.4-3.el6.x86_64

taglib-1.6.1-1.1.el6.x86_64

avahi-glib-0.6.25-8.el6.x86_64

compat-glibc-7.x-2.2.4.32.6.i386

glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64

NetworkManager-glib-0.8.1-5.el6.x86_64

glibmm24-2.22.1-1.el6.x86_64

glib2-2.22.5-5.el6.x86_64

glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64

dbus-glib-0.86-5.el6.x86_64

PackageKit-glib-0.5.8-13.el6.x86_64
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[root@localhost rpm-32bit]# rpm -ivh glibc-common-2.3.2-95.37.i386.rpm

warning: glibc-common-2.3.2-95.37.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature,
key ID 0c98ff9d: NOKEY

error: Failed dependencies:

glibc > 2.3.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.3.2-95.37.i386
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regarrds,
tanveer

can you fire the below two commands and paste the results here.
cd /usr/bin
ls -la gcc*
ls -la g++*

Based on that result, I could suggest to you a workaround.

seeing as you HAVE to be paying oracle
ask them .
not quite ,Oracle dose some very odd things to there "unbreakable " ( ya ha) kernel and it is not the same as the one in RHN

Glibc : The 32 bits version of glibc-2.12-1.25.el6.x86_64 is glibc-2.12-1.25.i686.

# yum install glibc.i686

.. And don't try to install some random packages, that you download.
Glibc is your system, and the installed version cannot be changed.

( If you install a version different from "2.12", it will make the OS
unusable, and you will have to reinstall the complete OS.
All your installed files / commands depend on glibc version 2.12 ).

..