The failed dependency is the oracleasm-2.4.21-EL-smp-1.0.0-1 that you were not able to install. Have you verified that you have the correct kernel loaded? (uname -a). -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nestor Florez Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:03 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 10g ASM on RHEL 3 AS We are trying to install ASM and following the guides of installation from = otn, but we get an error message saying: kernel-smp >=3D 2.4.21-15.EL is needed by oracleasm-2.4.21-EL-smp-1.0.0-1 We updated the kernel by using the up2date command but we still get the = same error. We also get an error when installing the rpm for oracleasmlib-1.0.0-1 = package: error: Failed dependencies: oracleasm >=3D 1.0.0 is needed by oracleasmlib-1.0.0-1 We can not find the oracleasm 1.0.0 Thanks, N=E9stor Alberto Fl=F3rez Torres -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l