Required libraries to run Installation Manager in silent mode on RHEL 6

Answer

For console mode, command-line mode, or silent mode, the following libraries are required:

• glibc
• nss-softokn-freebl: glibc has a dependency on this library.
• libgcc

NOTE: If you are using a 64-bit operating system but are running Installation Manager in 32-bit mode, you must install the 32-bit versions of these libraries. The 32-bit versions of these libraries are not installed on 64-bit installations of RHEL 6.x by default.

The required libraries are available on the Red Hat 6.x distribution DVD.

To install the required libraries:

1. Mount the DVD to the system. Insert the DVD into the DVD drive.

2. Open a terminal window as a user who has root privileges.

3. Execute the commands:

[root@localhost]# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
[root@localhost]# mount -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

4. Create the text file server.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

NOTE: To use gedit, execute the command:
[root@localhost]# gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/server.repo

5. Add the following text to the file:

[server]
name=server
baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/Workstation
enabled=1

where baseurl depends on the mounting point and the RHEL distribution.

In the example, the mounting point is cdrom and the RHEL distribution is Workstation. You can use Server for the RHEL distribution.

6. Execute the command:

[root@localhost]# yum clean all

7. Execute the command to import related public keys:

[root@localhost]# rpm --import /mnt/cdrom/*GPG*

8. Execute the commands to install the required libraries:

[root@localhost]# yum install glibc.i686
[root@localhost]# yum install libgcc.i686

During the install you might receive prompts similar to the example. Answer the prompts with: y.

Example:
Total download size: 15 M
Installed size: 47 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y

NOTE: The package name extension, .i686, might change in the command. This change depends on the hardware platform and the Installation Manager bit mode that you use. The table lists valid values for the package name extension.

RHEL 6.0 package names on different platforms

Platform	32-bit	64-bit
x86/x86_64	i686	x86_64
ppc/ppc64	ppc	ppc64
s390/s390x	s390	s390x

After completion of these steps, run ./installc to install Installation Manager.