hi guys
am having trouble installing oracle 10g on my vmware's 7.0 redhat linux 5.9 on my dell latitude D520 notebook
i have configurared my kernel parameters and followed procedure as instructed on oracle's installation docs but when i run the ./runInstaller i get this error sms.

[oracle@localhost database]$./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
Passed
All installer requirements met.
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2011-01-15_07-52-41AM. Please wait ...[oracle@localhost database]$ Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2011-01-15_07-52-41AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(Unknown Source)
at sun.awt.DebugHelper.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Unknown Source)

It turns out that the (stupid) Oracle installer GUI relies on an obsolete copy of X Windows.

Workaround:
... or ...
PS:
I assume your Redhat distro has both "yum" (higher-level, easier to use) and "rpm".

thanks paul it worked