Centos 5.5 x86-64 and Oracle 10g Enterprise 10.2.0.1 64bit

Installing the full caboodle, on a VMWare VM as it happens.

Having installed a Server + ServerGUI version of CentOS via the net install, I moved onto the Oracle stuff.

I followed all - okay, most - of the prerequisite steps apparently required. (As documented here.)

Mostly, I didn't do the checking of required packages.

I finally got to the point where I could run the installer - which I seem to recall required having done a

yum install libXp

and then running the installer (from a terminal while logged into X as the oracle user) as

./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs (was it?)

It failed with several errors at the linking stage.

More or less, I then ran the following and tried again (having done an rm -Rf on the couple of failed-install directories beneath the ORACLE_BASE).

yum install gcc

yum install glibc-devel.i386

yum install *compat-gcc-34.x*

yum install *compat-gcc-34-c++*

yum install *gdb.x86*

yum install unixODBC-devel.i386

yum install *gcc-c++*

yum install elfutils-libelf-devel-static*

yum install sysstat

yum install libaio-devel.x86_64

yum install ibtermcap-devel.x86_64

yum install readline-devel.x86_64

yum install libaio-devel*

yum install compat-db.x86_64

yum install libstdc++-devel.i386

ln -s /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5

...and that time it worked! (BTW, this was using "file storage" for the database.)