The error libraries: libmpfr.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory on RHEL 6

While installing Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 on RHEL 6 64 bits. error occured during library linking phase.

i found below error in make.log file..

INFO: rm -f ntcontab.*

INFO: (if [ "compile" = "compile" ] ; then \
 /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/db_1/bin/gennttab > ntcontab.c ;\
 gcc -m64  -fPIC -c ntcontab.c ;\
 rm -f /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/db_1/lib/ntcontab.o ;\
 mv ntcontab.o /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/db_1/lib/ ;\
         /usr/bin/ar rv /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/db_1/lib/libn11.a /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/db_1/lib/ntcontab.o ; fi)


Installation failed due to missing library libmpfr.so.1.

this library is provided by mpfr package.



Install mpfr rpm from yum repository.

yum install mpfr-2.4.1-6.el6.x86_64


After installing mpfr rpm, installation went fine.


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