Installing required libraries on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems

Before you run the installation commands for graphical or silent mode installation, you must install the required libraries on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

1. Mount the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution DVD to the system. Insert the DVD into the DVD drive.
2. Select open a terminal window as a root.
3. Execute the commands:

   [root@localhost]# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
   [root@localhost]# mount -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

4. Create the text file server.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
   Note: To use gedit:

   1. execute the command:

      [root@localhost]# gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/server.repo

   2. Add the following text to the file:

      [server]
      name=server
      baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/Workstation
      enabled=1

      Where baseurl depends on the mounting point and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.

      In the example, the mounting point is cdrom and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution is Workstation, but can be sever.

5. Execute the command:

   [root@localhost]# yum clean all

6. Execute the command to import related public keys:

   [root@localhost]# rpm --import /mnt/cdrom/*GPG*

7. Execute the commands to install the required libraries:

   [root@localhost]# yum install gtk2.i686
   [root@localhost]# yum install libXtst.i686

   If you received the missing libstdc++ message above, install the libstdc++ library:

   [root@localhost]# yum install compat-libstdc++

   During the install you might receive prompts similar to the example. Answer with 'y'.

   Example:

   Total download size: 15 M
   Installed size: 47 M
   Is this ok [y/N]: y

   Note: The package name extension (.i686) might change in the command depending on the hardware platform that you use. The table lists valid values for the package name extension. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 package names on different platforms:

   Platform	32-bit	64-bit
   x86/x86_64	i686	x86_64
   ppc/ppc64	ppc	ppc64
   s390/s390x	s390	s390x