I am following this article on installing the oracle client RPMs on a CentOs 6.x server using yum localinstall.for some reason yum cannot open the RPMs – and I am at a loss as to what the next step should be.
[me@somewhere oracle-install-files]$ ls -l
total 24
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5307 Feb 12 11:35 oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5307 Feb 12 11:35 oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5307 Feb 12 11:35 oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm
[me@somewhere oracle-install-files]$ sudo yum localinstall oracle* --nogpgcheck
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Setting up Local Package Process
Cannot open: oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm. Skipping.
Cannot open: oracle-instantclient11.2-devel-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm. Skipping.
Cannot open: oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm. Skipping.
Nothing to do
I tried pathing them out individually like this:
sudo yum localinstall oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1.x86_64.rpm --nogpgcheck
similar error (but only for the individual rpms).
well.. …you canot wghet these files directly. They need to be "approved"
Best Answer
Those are probably not RPMs, but the HTML page asking you to accept the license agreement. The fact that they were all exactly 5307 bytes should have been a major clue. That's the size of a web page, not the software you wanted.