Thursday, December 6, 2012

Prerequisites to perform updates on IBM systems automatically for linux


I did a fresh install of a redhat linux server (on IBM hardware), and tried to perform an update of firmware using IBM tools. This applies to UpdateXpress Installer and to all the tools that exploit it to perform the upgrades, such as Flex System Manager, IBM Systems Director, etc.

I found out that a prerequisite is to have the libstdc++.so.5 package installed on your system. 

I just issued the following command as root 

yum install libstdc++.so.5

and the trick was done!

P.S: To configure yum please refer to the followin blog post: Update Redhat Enterprise Linux with yum using the base install CD as a repository


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