2009/4/4 Victor Churchill <[email protected]>: > Hi, this is a freshly downloaded x86_64 installation of Ubuntu Server 8.04LTS. > q...@pe2950:~$ uname -a > Linux pe2950 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:36:05 UTC 2009 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Running on a Dell pe2950 (imaginative host naming, huh?) > > I've downloaded Oracle's 64 bit release 10gR2 : the download filename > was 10201_database_linux_x86_64.cpio.gz. > However, Oracle only certify this for Red Hat and Suse, not Debian or Ubuntu. > > By following the usual link-from-a-link-from-a-forum process I have > got a good way into the install and am now encountering an error which > seems related to a 32/64 bit lib compatibility issue. >
Apart from my pet hate that the oracle install needs a GUI. If you are paying god know how much for the oracle license, won't a switch to using Suse be relatively minor? Again, only oracle could need 32bit libs for a supposed 64 version of oracle! Kind Regards James -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
