Re: Oracle8 Installer problem - Linux

This sounds like a problem I was having on AIX recently. This platform requires you to setup an oracle link directory by running /cdrom/orainst/start.sh. In my case many of the filenames where incomplete or truncated, this was resolved by running this script.

Hth,
Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Kurt wrote:

> I've downloaded the file 805ship.tgz and untar'd/zipped it into /cdrom.
>
> When I cd into /cdrom/orainst and run ./orainst it errors with:
>
> darkstar:/cdrom/orainst$ ./orainst
>
> ./orainst: ./orainst.cm: No such file or directory
>
> darkstar:/cdrom/orainst$
>
> Even though the file actualy exists in the directory. My environmen
>
> settings are:
>
> #
>
> # @(#)local.profile 1.4 93/09/15 SMI
>
> #
>
> stty istrip
>
> stty erase "^H"
>
> set ignoreeof noclobber
>
> set filec
>
> ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5; export ORACLE_HOME
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
>
> ORACLE_SID=0001; export ORACLE_SID
>
> ORACLE_TERM=vt100; export ORACLE_TERM
>
> ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data; export ORA_NLS33
>
> #SRCHOME=/or_inst; export SRCHOME
>
> TMPDIR=/var/tmp; export TMPDIR
>
> #TWO_TASK
>
> PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH:.
>
> MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:.
>
> export LOGNAME PATH MANPATH
>
> darkstar:~$ echo $PATH
>
> /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
>
> :/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/andrew/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/games:.:/usr/lib/teTeX/bin
 

> :.
>
> blacksun:~# uname -a
>
> Linux blacksun 2.0.34 #1 Thu Oct 8 22:09:24 PDT 1998 i586 unknown
>
> blacksun:~# gcc -v
>
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1/egcs-2.90.29/specs
>
> gcc version egcs-2.90.29 980515 (egcs-1.0.3 release)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Kurt
>
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Received on Sat Oct 10 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT