libnsl-2.28-101.el8.x86_64 package is required for the Scheduler r12

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

We are looking to install r12 on RH8.  We have the latest packages, see below:

#   rpm -qa | grep libnsl

libnsl-2.28-211.el8.x86_64

libnsl2-1.2.0-2.20180605git4a062cf.el8.x86_64

Making sure this is acceptable for our upcoming install.

Environment

Release : 12.0

Resolution

Library is used by Oracle library libclntsh.so as shown below:

cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib

# ldd libclntsh.so
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe03b79000)
        libnnz19.so => /oracle/product/19.3.0/db_1/lib/libnnz19.so (0x00007f1a828f8000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1a826f4000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f1a82372000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1a82152000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00007f1a81f39000)    <<<<<<====== # there is no error here
        librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007f1a81d31000)
        libaio.so.1 => /lib64/libaio.so.1 (0x00007f1a81b2e000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f1a81917000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f1a81552000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1a87041000)
        libclntshcore.so.19.1 => /oracle/product/19.3.0/db_1/lib/libclntshcore.so.19.1 (0x00007f1a80fb2000)

# rpm -qf  /lib64/libnsl.so.1
libnsl-2.28-189.5.el8_6.x86_64

Therefore you can check if your package will work with your Oracle Client library using the following command:

ldd $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so