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Re: 10gR2 no longer installs on non-supported Linux

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:25:21 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c897050719032520bf6564@mail.gmail.com>


Well I got it installed on FC3, but as the installer thinks that this is a supported distribution I'm not sure that counts.

On 7/18/05, Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone else able to get 10gR2 installed on a non-supported Linux like
> Gentoo (for testing purposes only, obviously)? I haven't yet done a:
>
> strace -o /tmp/orainstall -f -ff ./runInstaller
> -ignoreSysPrereqs
>
> ...and checked out the 80+ files created about this, but the Installer
> fires up a "Product-Specific Prerequisite Check" even with the
> -ignoreSysPrereqs and the requirements for glibc and others fail. I
> believe I meet the glibc minimum at 2.3.2, but the installer refuses to
> continue. And thanks to the Gentoo development, I'm unable to upgrade
> my glibc because they delete ebuilds from portage and a revdep rebuild
> will fail. <sigh> Really need to dump Gentoo -- gone WAAAY downhill
> since Daniel Robbins left.
>
> BTW, this is my desktop, and I'm running a 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 kernel on a
> 2.6Ghz P-IV w/1G RAM.
>
> TIA!
> Rich
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Received on Tue Jul 19 2005 - 05:27:47 CDT

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