I've installed Oracle 9i Enterprise/Personal Edition Database and Oracle 9i Application Server on Debian Potato 2.2.20 Kernel
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 19:12, Jason Majors wrote: > Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on > Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box. > Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a "d drive" I got > scared), and keeps having problems that he won't share with the rest of us. > He talked to oracle support and they said that since debian doesn't have a > bourne shell, it won't install and that they can't help, because they only > support Redhat and SuSE. Your dba obviously has no unix/linux experiences. This is probably a great time for you to step in and show off your skills. > > Has anybody here installed oracle successfully on Debian? If so can you give > me details of the special steps you had to take? > What issues are u running into? Errors? Traps? I did not have any problems during the install. > Or if there's a better lib that will allow C++ programs on a Debian box > access an oracle server on a solaris box using Pro/C and whatever protocol > oracle uses for select/update/insert/etc. commands from C code, can > somebody give me some tips on that? You may want to read up on OCI? > Unfortunately, I'm database illiterate, so I don't know any more about our > needs than what I said here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]