The Java 1.6 runtime bundled with OpenSolaris runs without libXm or those
font packages - Oracle just has a bad habit of forcing their installers
to run with whatever ancient JVM they bundled with them.
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Jürgen Lüters wrote:
> Even worse they depend on libm as well. And all this probably for a java
> database installer which does run on non-Motif platforms ( Debian
> GNU/Linux) without any problems.
>
> "Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer
> from /tmp/OraInstall2008-10-11_04-05-52PM. Please
> wait [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/u04/database$ Exception in thread "main"
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
> /tmp/OraInstall2008-10-11_04-05-52PM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/motif21/libmawt.so:
> ld.so.1: java: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory"
>
> This is somewhat fatal for OpenSolaris as a Oracle database server. We
> might have to get to Solaris 10. Maybe Sun should talk to Oracle.
>
> Jürgen
>
>
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>
> Subject:
> Re: [indiana-discuss] missing packages
> From:
> Jürgen Lüters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:
> Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:09:54 +0200
> To:
> Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To:
> Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> Am Samstag, den 11.10.2008, 10:22 -0700 schrieb Alan Coopersmith:
>> Jürgen Lüters wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> i am trying to install oracle 10.2 on snv98. Oracle requires the
>>> packages SUNWi1of and SUNWxwfnt.
>>>
>>> Please make this packages available via pkg install.
>> Those packages can't be made available via pkg install at the moment,
>> as they contain fonts which are commercially licensed and
>> non-redistributable. SUNWi1of has also been recently removed from
>> Nevada & SXCE as well.
>>
>> It's strange that a database server depends on specific font packages.
> Even worse they depend on libm as well. And all this probably for a java
> database installer which does run on non-Motif platforms ( Debian
> GNU/Linux) without any problems.
>
> "Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer
> from /tmp/OraInstall2008-10-11_04-05-52PM. Please
> wait [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/u04/database$ Exception in thread "main"
> java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
> /tmp/OraInstall2008-10-11_04-05-52PM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/motif21/libmawt.so:
> ld.so.1: java: fatal: libXm.so.4: open failed: No such file or directory"
>
> This is somewhat fatal for OpenSolaris as a Oracle database server. We
> might have to get to Solaris 10. Maybe Sun should talk to Oracle.
>
> Jürgen
>
>
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