Re: libclntsh.so.9.0 problem: installation of Oracle9i on RHL 7.1

"Neil Zanella" <nzanella_at_garfield.cs.mun.ca> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.30.0110090016080.870-100000_at_garfield.cs.mun.ca...
>
> Hello,
>
> I am still having trouble with libclntsh.so.9.0 but at least the Oracle
> Universal Installer did not seem to complain this time...
>
> First I ensured that I had 400MB /tmp partition, 512MB RAM, and enough
> space on the /usr partition. Then I downloaded the files
Linux9i_Disk1.cpio,
> Linux9i_Disk2.cpio, and Linux9i_Disk3.cpio from www.oracle.com after
electing
> to download the Oracle9i Database collection of Oracle products for Linux.
>
> I unpacked each of them under /usr/local/src with a command like:
>
> cd /usr/local/src; zcat Linux9i_Disk1.cpio.gz | cpio -idmv
>
> to obtain the three directories Disk1, Disk2, and Disk3.
>
> Note that Red Hat 7.1 ships with glibc 2.2.2. Thus it should be possible
to
> install Oracle9i but not Oracle8i on Red Hat 7.1 because Oracle8i requires
> glibc 2.1.
>
> One thing that apparently helps installing Oracle9i database on RHL 7.1 is
> an upgrade of the binutils 2.10.91.0.4-1 RPM package to the following:
>
>

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/binutils-2.10.91.0.4-1.i386.rp m
> rpm -Uvh binutils-2.10.91.0.4-1.i386.rpm
>
> The Blackdown JDK 1.1.8 v3 found on mirrors such as:
>
> ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/JDK-1.1.8/i386/v3/
>
> seems to be built for glibc 2.1 thus I am skeptical about whether it would
> work with Red Hat 7.1 but luckyly it seems like the JRE 1.1.8 is installed
> by Oracle9i during Oracle9i's own installation under
$ORACLE_BASE/jre/1.1.8 .
>
> I tried reinstalling after recreating the oracle user and its group as
follows:
>
> /usr/sbin/groupadd -r dba
> /usr/sbin/groupadd -r oinstall
> /usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba -d /home/oracle -m -r oracle
>
> and deleting and then recreating the following directory
> and resetting its permissions:
>
> mkdir /usr/local/oracle
> chown oracle:dba /usr/local/oracle
>
> Then I updated the UNIX oracle user's .bash_profile to contain the
following:
>
> umask 022
> export ORACLE_BASE=/usr/local/oracle
> export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/9.0.1
> export ORACLE_SID=start
> export

CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_BASE/jre/1.1.8/lib:$ORACLE_BASE/jre/1.1.8/lib/rt.jar:$ORAC LE_HOME/jlib/oembase-9_0_1.jar:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib/oemtools-9_0_1.jar
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_BASE/lib
> export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_BASE/jre/1.1.8/bin
>
> Then I logged out and back in as the oracle user and ran the Oracle
Universal
> Installer script. Apparently it is important to specify an absolute
pathname
> to this script when installing it. Thus, as the oracle user, I issued:
>
> /usr/local/src/Disk1/runInstaller
>
> This time I was able to successfully install both the server, client, and
> utilities. The only problem I am having is that I keep on getting the
> following message when I try to run sqlplus:
>
> sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.9.0: cannot
> load shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Perhaps the reason for this is that I did not do an entirely fresh
> install. This is the same error I got last time. Perhaps I ought
> to reinstall RHL 7.1 and try the above procedure again.
>
> Does anyone know where libclntsh.so.9.0 is supposed to come from?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
>
>

You probably didn't set the env var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $ORACLE_HOME/lib

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Mon Oct 08 2001 - 22:53:25 CDT