Re: error -1 while installing 8i on Linux

From: aflinsch <avflinsch_at_att.net>
Date: 2000/07/17
Message-ID: <39731D9C.57B87B01@att.net>#1/1

tyler_sperry_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Question: Did you install a version on the JRE prior to installing
> Oracle?
> Are you using 8.1.6 or 8.1.5? I am trying to install using 8.1.6 and
> getting errors (after starting the runInstaller in install/linux) that
> say "You need to download and install the Jave Runtime Environment
> 1.1.8. I have done this and put it in /usr/local/jre and added this to
> my path and am still getting errors.
>
> Seems like when you are running the runInstaller, it is installing the
> JRE for you. How did you get it to do this?
>
> Any help is appreciated?
>

You need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the jre's directory rahter than adding ot to your path. Received on Mon Jul 17 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT