Re: Oracle 8.1.5 linux install problems

Joe,

 installed 8.1.5 on Mandrake 6.0 (basically Red Hat 6.0 with a few add-ons) in about 20-30 minutes without a single problem. I did not create a database during the install but used the "dbassist" gui afterwards to create a small test database again without error.

KDE is the default gui env in Mandrake so you might try using the "switchdesktop" (I think) utility under Red Hat 6.0 to switch from GNOME to KDE. However, I really don't think that's your problem. Where did you place the JRE (It HAS to be the one requested in the 8.1.5 install doc - 1.1.6 Version 5)?

And what does
> - I replaced the jre program with a script that printed
> the jre command line parameters and ran the jre myself
> to verify this

mean? Don't reinvent the wheel. Simply create the needed softlink from the /usr/local/jre dir to the location where you placed the jre and the run the provided "runInstaller" from the root of the dir where you untarred the 8.1.5 tarball.

Hope this works for you as a lot of us here at Oracle are pulling for Linux to become a standard platform for our products.

Later,
Gene...

Joe Edwards wrote in message ...
>
>I worked for several hours trying to install Oracle 8.1.5
>on a fresh RedHat 6.0 install. Here's what I found.
>(I could find no references to the Oracle 8.1.5 linux install
>on the OTN (other than the install docs that come with)).
>
>the install script did not work for me
> there is no -green option on the jre
> I tried jre 116_v5 and 117_v3
> - I replaced the jre program with a script that printed
> the jre command line parameters and ran the jre myself
> to verify this
>
> I then used the command line parameters to start the oracle
> installer using the jdk thusly:
>
>/usr/local/java/jdk1.2/jre/bin/java
>-Doracle.installer.library_loc=../../stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.
7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/bin/linux
>-Doracle.installer.startup_location=/home/joe/Down/Oracle/install/linux/..
>-Doracle.installer.nlsEnabled="FALSE" -Doracle.installer.unixVersion=2.2.5-
15 -ms16m
>-mx32m -ss1m -oss1m -cp
>/tmp/OraInstall:../../stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/
>1/DataFiles/Expanded/lib/OraInstaller.jar:../../stage/Components/oracle/swd
/oui
>/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/lib/InstImages.jar:../../stage/Components/o
racl
>e/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/lib/InstHelp.jar:../../stage/Compo
nent
>s/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/lib/oracleice.jar:../../sta
ge/C
>omponents/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/lib/help.jar:../../
stag
>e/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0/1/DataFiles/Expanded/lib/ewt.jar
>oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller -scratchPath
/tmp/OraInstall -sourceLoc
>../../stage/products.jar -sourceType network
>
> I tried the jdk116 and 12 using the default RedHat 6.0 Gnome window
> manager. Neither worked. A java window flashed before my eyes
> and disappeared and the above command just ran and took up cpu time.
> I could start the oracle installer under the fvwm using both
> jdk1.2 and jdk116_v5.
>
> I did get the installer to run but now can not get past the
> product.jar, install directory and orainventory directory selection.
> I get the following error:
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> oracle/sysman/oix/oixp/OixpIHandler at
> oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicPullSession.checkForPublisherConn(Compiled
Code)
> I looked through most of the jar files provided in the install
> and did not find any oracle/sysman/oix paths.
>
> So now I am really stuck unless I write my own OixpIHandler class.
>
> Oh yeah, The
>/foo/bar/Oracle_install_directory/stage/Components/oracle/swd/oui/1.6.0.7.0
/1/DataFiles/Exp
>anded/bin/linux directory requires an absolute path. It is relative
>as called by the runInstaller program. Note that it is an absolute path
>in the above.
>
> Did anyone get further than this??
>
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Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 23:01:23 CDT