Prereq check warning for missing rpm package libstdc++43 on SUSE 11

on SuSE 11 SP1 - 11.2.0.3 Grid Installation - ./runInstaller and prereq check is failing because compat-libstdc++-33.3.2.3-47.3 is not installed.

on SuSE 11 SP2 - 11.2.0.3 Grid Installation - ./runInstaller and prereq check is failing because the following packages are not installed:-

 Package: compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
 Package: libstdc++43-4.3.4_20091019-0.7.35 (s390x)
 Package: libgcc43-4.3.4_20091019-0.7.35.

This prereq issue is also seen on generic Linux SuSE 11 platforms.

Changes

SuSE 11 SP1 SP2
11.2.0.3

Cause

This is documented in unpublished Bug 13445763 and Bug 14366019
The rpm compat-libstdc++-33.3.2.3-47.3 is not available on  SuSE 11. The rpm libstdc++-33 provides the required files.  Both the 32-bit version and 64-bit versions are required.
This is the same as the 11.2.0.2 requirements for this platform.

On SuSE 11 SP2 the libstdc++43 and libgcc43 checks fail as the rpm has changed to libstdc++46 but providing both the 32-bit version and 64-bit versions of libstdc++43-devel rpms are installed - this is not a problem.

Solution

You can safely ignore these warnings - click on ignore button in the top right hand corner of the screen.

You should, however, ensure that you meet all the other rpm prereqs.  To assist you, please refer to Getting Started - 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure,SI(Single Instance), ASM and DB (IBM: Linux on System z) Document 1306465.1 - specifically the rpm validation section.

For SLES11 - you should download the attachment at the end of the above article:

- SLES 11 - 11.2. Grid Infrastructure, SIHA, DB Install

To assist further - here is the "rpm -qa" output from a SuSE 11 SP2 in-house system which resulted in a successful installation of 11.2.0.3 Grid Infrastructure.:-

zhost:/home/oracle # rpm -qa | grep libstdc
libstdc++46-32bit-4.6.1_20110701-0.13.9
libstdc++43-devel-4.3.4_20091019-0.22.17
libstdc++33-3.3.3-11.9
libstdc++46-4.6.1_20110701-0.13.9
libstdc++33-32bit-3.3.3-11.9
libstdc++43-devel-32bit-4.3.4_20091019-0.22.17
libstdc++-devel-4.3-62.198

zhost:/home/oracle # rpm -qa | grep libgcc
libgcc46-32bit-4.6.1_20110701-0.13.9
libgcc46-4.6.1_20110701-0.13.9

 which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
zhost:/home/oracle # gcc --version
gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973]
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

zhost:/home/oracle/sjc # c++ --version
c++ (SUSE Linux) 4.3.4 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 152973]
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.