The following sections provide a detailed set of instructions for installing the required software packages(RPMs) before you install your Oracle Database 10g (R1 and R2). These sections include the following possible configurations:
10g R2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86-64),
10g R2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86),
10g R1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86-64),
10g R1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86),
10g R1 and R2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86),
10g R1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (x86-64), and
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If you are yet to install Update 3 or later, do not forget to install an updated binutils RPM from https://rhn.redhat.com/ or from http://oss.oracle.com/. This command will install the newer version of binutils, remember to change the version number if the one you downloaded is newer.
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If you do not install a newer binutil RPM from Oracle or RHN, then you will get the following error message:
/usr/bin/ld: /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/lib//libirc.a(fast_memcpy.o):
relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `_memcpy_mem_ops_method' can not
be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
/usr/bin/ld: /u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/lib//libirc.a(fast_memcpy.o):
relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `_memcpy_mem_ops_method' can not
be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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Oracle lists the control-center and xscreensaver RPMs as a requirements. But you should not have any problems when these RPMs are missing. But if you want to install them, you may have to install many additional RPMs in order to satisfy dependencies: