Of course, if you're not installing a database, that step can be left off.. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Horne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:50 PM To: Peter J . Holzer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: DBD::Oracle with Oracle client on Redhat Linux 7.1 To install Oracle 8.1.7 on RH 7.1, you must first install the RH 6.2 compatibility packages (compat-egcs, compat-glibc and compat-libs) from the 7.1 CDs. Enter the following before running the Oracle installer: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 . /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh Install Oracle using the custom option, and choose not to create a database. I found that in addition to installing the compatibility packages I also had to download the file glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar.gz from technet.oracle.com, and create the stubs as per the instructions. Finally, create the database using dbassist. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Orlando Andico [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:56 AM To: Peter J . Holzer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DBD::Oracle with Oracle client on Redhat Linux 7.1 On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Peter J . Holzer wrote: .. > Also be careful which version you get. Oracle 8.1.7 doesn't seem to like > Redhat 7.1 (the installer just hangs shortly after startup), so you will > need Oracle 9i, which was only certified for SuSE last time I looked > (although the requirements (Kernel 2.4.x and glibc 2.2) are met by RH > 7.1, too, so it would probably work). 9i has just been certified for Red Hat 7.1. The problem with the 8i installer on RH7.x is due to weird interactions between the bundled JVM and glibc-2.2 in RH7.x. I guess you could get the installer working with the new J2EE 1.3.1 FCS release from Sun, using green threads (this is how I got LimeWire working on RH7.x). But then again I have better things to do.. =) still chugging along with 8.0.5.0.0 =) -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc.
