<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Install GCC 2.9 Compat libraries</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Set Kernel Parameters" HREF="sect_05.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Run Installer" HREF="sect_07.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_05.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_07.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="sect_06" ></A >6. Install GCC 2.9 Compat libraries</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_06_01" ></A >6.1. Install GCC 2.96 Compat packages</H2 ><P >From Fedora Core TWO:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="filename" >compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.126.i386.rpm</TT ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="filename" >compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.126.i386.rpm</TT ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="filename" >compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.126.i386.rpm</TT ></P ></LI ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="filename" >compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.126.i386.rpm</TT ></P ></LI ></UL ><DIV CLASS="caution" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="caution" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/caution.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Caution"></TD ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Don't overwrite existing packages</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD > </TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >Make sure that you keep your existing GCC installation, or a large part of your software will not work or can not be compiled any more. In case these packages are already installed on your system with newer version numbers, use <B CLASS="command" >rpm <TT CLASS="option" >-i --force</TT ></B > to install the older ones next to the newer ones.</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >From the Fedora Core THREE subtree, get the <SPAN CLASS="application" >compat-db</SPAN > package.</P ><P >If you don't install GCC compat libraries as above you get a zillion linking errors.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_06_02" ></A >6.2. Create symbolic links</H2 ><P >Put gcc296 and g++296 first in your $PATH variable by creating the following symbolic links:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc323 # mv /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++323 # ln -s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc # ln -s /usr/bin/g++296 /usr/bin/g++ </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Note that should you already have upgraded your system, GCC versions might be different.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sect_05.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sect_07.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Set Kernel Parameters</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Run Installer</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >