Re: Help installing ORACLE on LINUX

Get Debian 2.1

Don't worry about setting the kernel parameters until you get Oracle installed. You will have to worry about which version of glibc you have. I successfully installed Oracle on Debian 2.1 without too much of a glitch. I started with a Debian "Adminstrators install". Debian has glibc 2.0.7. This is how I did my directories ORACLE_BASE=/home/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/product/8.0.5
Three mount points for data storage

/home/oracle/u01
/home/oracle/u02
/home/oracle/u03

I created the dba group, and the oracle user installed the files. I installed everything, but the JDBC. The two glitches I had were: One of the documentation files tries to drop into some directory like /home/oracle/product/8.0.5/server805/install

create the directory structure just above the point it is trying to install the document with
mkdir /home/oracle/product/8.0.5/server805

Make a sym link for that directory to the documentation directory ln -s /home/oracle/doc /home/oracle/product/8.0.5/server805/install

I also found that with the tcl stuff, it was looking for a library which appears to be named differently on my system. If you look in /usr/lib you will see
tcllib8.0.so
THe installer is looking for
tcllib.so
so I created a sym link there too.
ln -s tcllib8.0.so tcllib.so

Those are the some of the obsacles I overcame with my Oracle install. At our next Linux Users Group meeting July 14 I will present how to install Oracle. I plan to do a slightly more detailed writeup than here too.

brian

On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 21:57:16 GMT, yong321_at_yahoo.com wrote:

>I'm here to ask for answers. Hunter, did you get any response on this?
>People following this thread talk about how to solve the glibc
>compatibility problem (kindly), but does that mean we don't have to
>worry about "set the kernel parameters" altogether?
>
>Yong
>
>In article <al8b3.4028$d5.409156_at_news21b.ispnews.com>,
> "HunterX" <Hunterx_at_linkline.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to set up ORACLE on my LINUX box (RedHat)and the
>instructions say
>> I need to set the kernel parameters. Could someone please tell me
>how??
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
>
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