I was preparing some fresh installed OEL5.5 machines for database software installation, but after running ‘yum install oracle-validated‘, the OUI did not pass the prerequisites on two packages. It seems it did not install unixODBC-devel x86_64 and libaio-devel x86_64.
Their Linux may be unbreakable, but their ‘oracle-validated’ package on the public yum server seemed to be broken. Continue reading