Cannot install the Oracle client on Linux 5.3

Products

• Data Loss Prevention Enforce

Issue/Introduction

During the install of the Oracle client software on a Linux 5.3 machine for Enforce I am getting the following error.

$ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
                                      Passed
All installer requirements met.

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-08-10_03-48-10PM. Please wait ...[[email protected] client]$ Oracle Universal Installer, Version 10.2.0.1.0 Production Copyright (C) 1999, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Exception java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2009-08-10_03-48-10PM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory occurred..
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2009-08-10_03-48-10PM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)

Resolution

On Linux 5.3 systems check and verify that the following RPMs are installed on the system.

• libXau-devel-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm
•  libXp-1.0.0-8.i386.rpm
• libXp-devel-1.0.0-8.i386.rpm