RHEL 7.3 yum RHEL 6 RPMs

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Hello!

I have a 64 bit RHEL 7.3 needing to run a 32 bit application according to the applications customer service. Customer service gave me a list of RPMs needed but they are "el6" which I assume stands for RHEL 6.

This is for a stand alone system so I do a "yum install --downloadonly" and it says that it isn't available for any of the RPMs.

How do I go about getting the information to input into the redhat.repo file to successfully yum RHEL 6 RPMs?

Thanks!

BU
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SM Guru 3731 points
26 October 2017 5:50 AM

Brennan,

Please check this KB for more details https://access.redhat.com/articles/54483

Though it would be possible to install provided proper repositories are available on the system, it is not a best practice or suggested since while installing a different release version package it would tend to resolve dependency which in turn would pull out many packages and finally it would be a big mess. So, as Red Hat says it is not supported. But I'm still confused about how come your application vendor suggested to install a different release packages.

BU Community Member 20 points
26 October 2017 12:43 PM

Thanks for your response! I'm not sure why he suggested el6 RPMs but I'm guessing he doesn't know of any RHEL 7 RPMs that can run 32 bit applications.

Would anyone know what kind of RPMs I would need to run a 32 bit application on a 64 bit RHEL 7.3 machine? Thanks!

SM Guru 3731 points
26 October 2017 1:00 PM

Though RHEL7.x can only be installed on 64-bit hardware platform, you could install 32-bit packages if required. If those packages are native then they would be available, otherwise in EPEL repos. Could you let me know the name of those packages (32-bit) for which you've been trying to install? I can check if those are natively available or you may have to ask the application vendor and get it from their site and install it.

BU Community Member 20 points
26 October 2017 1:27 PM

For sure! Here they are: libXp-1.0.2-2.1.el6.i686 libXt-1.1.4-6.1.el6.i686 - el7 version installed. openmotif-2.3.3-8.el6.i686 libXpm-3.5.10-2.el6.i686 - el7 version installed. ncurses-libs-5.7.4.20090207.el6.i686 - el7 version installed. xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi

I've looked them up on Redhats site and found some of them but I don't want to have to get all of their dependencies. So our idea was to download them via "yum install --downloadonly " from a different computer then burn those to a disc to bring to the stand alone 7.3 system.

BU Community Member 20 points
26 October 2017 1:22 PM

Delete.

SM Guru 3731 points
26 October 2017 1:38 PM

Hi, That is certainly RHEL6.x based packages and as you are aware installing packages of el6 on el7 not supported. If you really wish to install those packages compatible in el7 then you may search on your system and install those available.

Your vendor might have suggested those packages thinking that your system is RHEL6.x, so you may have to ask them to provide the required packages for RHEL7.x platform.

I just did a check on my test vm system running RHEL7.4 and I could find them available (get the repos configured), bundled along with ISO:

[root@rhel77 ~]# yum info libXp.i686
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Available Packages
Name        : libXp
Arch        : i686
Version     : 1.0.2
Release     : 2.1.el7
Size        : 30 k
Repo        : server
Summary     : X.Org X11 libXp runtime library
URL         : http://www.x.org
License     : MIT
Description : X.Org X11 libXp runtime library

[root@rhel77 ~]# yum info libXt.i686
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Available Packages
Name        : libXt
Arch        : i686
Version     : 1.1.5
Release     : 3.el7
Size        : 167 k
Repo        : server
Summary     : X.Org X11 libXt runtime library
URL         : http://www.x.org
License     : MIT
Description : X.Org X11 libXt runtime library

You may search for those packages on your system using the command :

# yum search libXp

All the best!

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