Re: Oracle on Linux

From: Marcus Ruehmann <m.ruehmann_at_mail.isis.de>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:18:43 +0100
Message-ID: <36F42CD3.6F931BBF@mail.isis.de>

Jack wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am a newbie to Linux.
>
> The Oracle for Linux installation guide says to just run /orainst/orainst to
> install. Ha! I tried that, and got "command not found". So, I tried sh
> orainst.sh and got a long list of ":command not found" and ":bad variable
> name".
>
> Can anyone of you Linux experts help me out?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jack Silvey

Hi Jack,

you have to go to the directory where you untared oracle, lets assume ora8
Then cd orainst; ./orainst

This should work. If you start commands with / then the shell assumes the command in the root directory.

Hope this helps
Marcus
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Marcus Ruehmann
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Received on Sat Mar 20 1999 - 17:18:43 CST