I am starting a fresh install of IBM Content analytic on RHEL 6.4, 64-bit. This installation requires some 32-bit packages - basically the 32-bit compat-libstdc++ libraries. :

The following 32-bit packages are required on Linux 64-bit systems:
- compat-libstdc++-33.i686
- libstdc++.i686
- zlib-devel.i686
- libXext.i686
- libXft.i686
- libXi.i686
- libXp.i686
- libXtst.i686
- libXm

I have done this many times before, but always in a hack-and-burn fashion - just searching the packages "out there" on rpm finder, and then jamming them in. I'm not proud of this method.

I would like some help from this forum in a more systematic approach - a "best practice." For example, the first thing to do might be to list the 32-bit packages already installed on the system. Offhand, I don't know the command for this. Point of fact, I don't really know the command that lets me know whether a package is 64- or 32-bit, for example, when search in available packages in the RHEL software management system.

I welcome a discussion, hints, any help. Thank you.

1) simply specify the arch using yum: yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686
2) specifically ask for the arch using rpm: rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n'

For more details, see man yum and man rpm

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Actually, I'm having difficulty getting yum to do ANYTHING. This is a brand new system and I'm sure there is additional configuration of YUM required. I wonder if RedHat just provides its own subscription repo, so that if you don't subscribe, you need to configure another? Here is my yum output - actually, it never vaies, regardless of the package I am looking for:

[root@rhel06host Downloads]# yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686
Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, subscription-manager
This system is registered to Red Hat Subscription Management, but is not receiving updates. You can use subscription-manager to assign subscriptions.
Setting up Install Process
No package compat-libstdc++-33.i686 available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@rhel06host Downloads]#

If you aren't paying RedHat, then you should have installed CentOS instead. AFAIK you can't get RHEL updates without subscribing. If you are paying RedHat, there must be some directions in their knowledge base on how to receive updates.

Or in the mean time, configure your install DVD as a repository and at least you'll have the base packages.

I found instructions on how to configure the install DVD as a repository. However, I am running this on VMWare, and I used an iso image to do the installation. Is there a way to use the iso?