Re: Installation Problems

"RICHG" <rglivar_at_home.com> writes:

> Your not insane. I had the same thing happen to me when I tried to install
> Oracle 8.1.6 on Mandrake Make sure your using glibc 2.1.3 and JDK 1.1.8.
> I finally installed redhat 6.2 and the install worked fine.
>
> Rich
>
> "Robert Tilley" <tilleyrw_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:CEiW8.188753$0g1.3456284_at_twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> > I am attempting to install Oracle 8i on my Debian Linux box. I have
> > followed the instructions at "http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/817.html"
> > as as regards setting of environment variables and creation of mount
> points.
> >
> > When I start the installer (./runInstaller), the buttons on the bottom of
> > the dialog (Next, Exit, etc.) are non-functional. i.e., they will depress
> > but will not continue the installation procedure.) The only way to exit
> is
> > by clicking the close-box on the window frame.
> >

This is interesting - I had exactly the same problem when trying to install on Mandrake 8.1 and Redhat 7.1. I then decided to change distributions to Debian (for other reasons apart from Oracle) and although Debian is not officially supported by Oracle, I thought I'd give it a go.

I had a fresh install of Debian and decided to go with the "woody" version rather than "potato". I installed 8.1.7 and applied the glibc stubs patch from the oracle site - the install all worked fine - no errors/problems at all. I've since done it on a second Debian "woody" system with no problems.

The real problem you will have is that because "woody" is sort of Debians beta release its a bit of a moving target - I cannot honestly say which glibc libraries I had installed when I did the original install. I certainly did use IBMs 1.1.8 jdk as recommended in the documentation. I think the important thing with installing Oracle on Linux is that you follow the install instructions EXACTLY - later versions of jdk or glibc are likely to give you problems and make sure you confirm all the kernel parameters are at least at the levels recommended in the linux install readme file etc.

Tim Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 18:45:28 CDT