install problem: Oracle9i on Red Hat 7.1

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_garfield.cs.mun.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:06:22 -0230
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110082201510.18370-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>

Hello,

I recently tried to install Oracle9i on Linux and came across the following problems. Does anybody know what the cause of these could be? Did I do something wrong during installation. In particular I would like to know why I am getting:

sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.9.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

Do I have the wrong version of Java installed or can I go with 1.3.1? Is Oracle based entirely on Java? Do I _have_ to use an older version of the Blackdown Java port?

Thanks,

Neil

# Login as root and do the following:

# Extract the three downloaded archives:
#
# for i in 1 2 3; do
# gunzip Linux9i_Disk$i.cpio.gz
# cpio -idmv < Linux9$i_Disk1.cpio
# done

# Check the Oracle documentation included in the Disk1 archive:
#
# netscape file:/usr/local/src/Disk1/doc/unixdoc/index.htm

# Install the Sun JDK downloaded RPM:
#
# rpm -ivh jdk-1.3.1_01.i386.rpm

# Create a symbolic link to the java package that was installed
# so that the Oracle Universal Installer may find it:
#
# ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_01 /usr/local/java

# Create Oracle groups and user.

/usr/sbin/groupadd -r dba        # create the OSDBA user group
/usr/sbin/groupadd -r oinstall   # create the ORAINVENTORY user group
/usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba -d /home/oracle -m -r oracle

# Create any directories and set the appropriate permissions:

/bin/mkdir /usr/local/oracle
/bin/chown oracle:dba /usr/local/oracle

# Place the following in the Oracle user's .bash_profile file:

umask 022

export ORACLE_BASE=/usr/local/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/local/oracle/product/9.0.1
export ORACLE_SID=start

export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

# Now set the UNIX password for user oracle and login as oracle and
# as user oracle run the following script:

/usr/local/src/Disk1/runInstaller

in the UNIX Group Name window type oinstall
run /tmp/orainstRoot.sh when prompted to
select Install Oracle9i Database 9.0.1.0.0
select Enterprise Edition (1.79GB)
select General Purpose
set Global Database Name to something like database.joes.net
location of JDK on my system (as installed by the Sun RPM files): /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_01
execute cd $ORACLE_HOME; ./root.sh when prompted to

I was hoping that all of this would go smoothly so that I would proceed to the post installation aspects but when the Oracle Universal Installer got to 64% I got the following error:

Error in invoking target install of makefile /usr/local/oracle/product/9.0.1/plsql/lib/ins_plsql.mk ... (Ignore...)

This error was followed by many other similar errors.

Dialog box asks me to run as root: /usr/local/oracle/product/9.0.1/root.sh I do it...

Running Oracle9 root.sh script...
\nThe following environment variables are set as:

ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
ORACLE_HOME= /usr/local/oracle/product/9.0.1

Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:

   Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ...
   Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
   Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...

\nCreating /etc/oratab file...
Adding entry to /etc/oratab file...
Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created

At the end of all of this I try to run sqlplus from the command line and get:

$ sqlplus
sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.9.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

What did I do wrong???

Thanks,

Neil Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 19:36:22 CDT