Re: Installing Oracle 8.0.5 on Red Hat 6.0

"Timur I.Danyarhojaev" wrote:
>
> daedalus wrote:
>
> > After having problems I went looking on
> > dejanews for some answers, but the pickings
> > are very slim. After an hour or so of
> > clicking around on Red Hat's site all I
> > could find was:
> >
> > >Oracle will work on Red Hat Linux 6.0, but
> > >you will need to use the "compat" packages
> > >in order to relink Oracle, if you need to
> > >do so. You will need to patch the Oracle
> > >Makefiles to use the correct linker from
> > >the "compat" packages in order to do so.
> > >In order to install Oracle on Red Hat Linux
> > >6.0, you will need to choose not to create
> > >a database at install time; wait until
> > >after you have relinked Oracle to create
> > >a database.
> >
> > This is a wee bit vague and confusing for
> > my tastes...
> >
> > Has anyone out there successfully done
> > this? Does anyone know of a site with
> > more information or a detailed "HOW TO"
> > style document?
> >
> > Or, maybe am I better off waiting for a
> > new version of Oracle that will work with
> > RH 6.0? (8i maybe?)
>
> See on my home page about instaling Oracle8.0.5.1EE on RedHat-6.0
> http://www.podolsk.ru/~tid/ora_linux ,
> but it only on russian ( ;-)))) Sory )

This looks like it might be what I'm looking for... Unfortunately I can't read Russian )-; If someone out there is up to translating it, I'll put it out on the web for others use. (myself included ;-))

Thanks guys
-Bill Received on Tue Jun 01 1999 - 12:21:01 CDT