Hello:

I Have an IBM PPC box with Red Hat installed. And I try to install an Oracle on this box, but it failed. After an investigation, I found Oracle required 64 bit OS. And I use "getconf LONG_BIT" which return 32.

$ getconf LONG_BIT
32

So I assume the OS is 32 bit. But our UNIX guy said it is 64 bit since "uname –a" return ppc64

$ uname -a
Linux xxxyyy 2.6.9-5.EL #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:23:58 EST 2005 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux

I know uname will returns "the machine hardware name", "the processor type" and "the hardware platform". Would it be equivalent with the "Kernel bit" we are usually talking about? Which is best way to tell the OS kernel bit on Linux? Could anyone advice it?

Thanks a lot!

Miao

cat /boot/config* | grep CONFIG_64BIT

I got
CONFIG_64BIT=y

Then I have to assume it's 64 bit.

Guess I need to login a call with Oracle.


Thanks,
Miao

Maybe you lack some 64bit libraries?
64bit OS doesn't mean much to me. Your kernel is compiled with support for 64bit modules it seams but linux is the kernel not the OS.
You should try to track down what Oracle specific needs are.

Thanks Agrouf,

Yep, you may righ here.

I checked and I am not sure if the following packages, which required by Oracle 10GR2, was installed:
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
libgcc-3.4.3-9.EL4.ppc64.rp
libaio-0.3.103-3 (64-Bit)
libaio-devel-0.3.103-3 (64-Bit)

The issue is I do not know how to check them. I executed the following:

# rpm -q libgcc
libgcc-3.4.6-3.1
libgcc-3.4.6-3.1

# rpm -q libaio
libaio-0.3.105-2

But I don know if "libgcc-3.4.6-3.1" is later version of "libgcc-3.4.3-9.EL4" or "libgcc-3.4.3-9.EL4.ppc64.rp"; or if "libaio-0.3.105-2" is the later version of "libaio-0.3.103-3" or "libaio-0.3.103-3 (64-Bit)"? Any advice?

Thanks a bunch!

Miao

try
rpm -q --queryformat='%{N}-%{V}-%{R}.%{arch}\n' libgcc

cool stuffs.

Thanks a lot!

Miao