uncompress utility

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Issue

  • When trying to install Serena Dimenstions and facing following error

uncompress not found : Dimensions installation aborted
Please ensure that this command is in the search path
then restart the installation

Resolution

  • Install ncompress-4.2.4-44.rhel4 package to use 'uncompress' command.
  • Created symlink from "unzip" to "uncompress' command.

Root Cause

  • ncompress-4.2.4-44.rhel4 was not installed.
  • Symlink from "unzip" pointing to "uncompres" was not created.

Diagnostic Steps

1.  On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, trying to install Serena Dimenstions software and facing following error:

uncompress not found : Dimensions installation aborted

Please ensure that this command is in the search path

then restart the installation2.  Unzip installed properly.

[root@server /]# up2date unzip
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...Fetching rpm headers...
########################################Name                                    Version              Rel               Arch
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The following packages you requested are already updated:
unzip3.  One of the requirements to install this software is to run the script create_ora_inst.  When running it, facing error ast "uncompress not found".

[root@server ~]# cd /home/serena/db_preinstall/oracle/unix/
[root@server unix]# ls -l
total 208
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401 46996 Apr 22  2007 create_ora_inst
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401 19073 Apr 22  2007 Dim10Oracle10g.dbt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401 17726 Apr 22  2007 Dim10Oracle9i.dbt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401 54053 Jan  5  2007 eula_unix_en_us.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401  4119 Apr 22  2007 upgrade_check.sql
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401 16684 Apr 22  2007 upgradedb_check_10.sql
-rwxrwxrwx  1 400 401  3320 Apr 22  2007 upgradedb_check.sql

[root@server unix]# ./create_ora_inst
uncompress not found : Dimensions installation aborted
Please ensure that this command is in the search path
then restart the installation
[root@server unix]#

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