RE: Need help installing Oracle8 for Linux

Try with this http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html docs.

Saludos.

Marcus Bungert <jojo_at_theoffice.net> escribió en el mensaje de noticias 7tr0jb$qq0$1_at_gazette.omnilink.net...
> Hello world ;-)
>
> I tried on two different test server the installation of
> Oracle 8.0.5.0.0 Standard Edition on SuSE 6.2.
>
> On both server I got several problems. Maybe you
> can help me. Here are the steps of my installations:
>
> 1. http://www.suse.de/~mha/oracle/oracle8051STD-suse62.html
> This is an installation instruction for Oracle8 on SuSE Linux.
>
> 2. I downloaded all the mentioned patches.
>
> 3. I copied the complete Oracle8 CD to an installation directory and
> set all the permissions. (/install-8.0.5)
>
> 4. I extracted all the patches as the SuSE instruction tells
>
> 5. with rpm -Uvh g20binut.rpm g20egcs.rpm g20glibc.rpm g20libs.rpm
> I installed the glibc-2.0 compatibility packages. From archive
> oracle8051STD-suse62.tar.gz I copied the libtcl7.5.so to
> /usr/i486-glibc20-linux/lib/libtcl7.5.so and installed the packages
> tcl_old.rpm and orarun.rpm with rpm -Uvh
>
> 6. I edited the lines 10 and 139 of /install-8.0.5/orainst/oratab.sh and
> changed GROUPS to GROUPSCMD.
>
> 7. The user oracle and the group dba has been created. User oracle
> uses bash1 and not bash
>
> 8. The .profile of user oracle:
>
> export ORACLE_SID=ORCL
> export ORACLE_TERM=vt220
> export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
> export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/products/8.0.5.1
> export CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes111.zip
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib
> export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
> export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle
>
> 9. As root I created the /etc/oratab with /install-8.0.5/orainst/oratab.sh
> The enviroment variable ORACLE_OWNER and SID I set manually.
>
> 10. Started the Oracle Installer from /install-8.0.5/orainst/orainst.sh
and
> selected 'custom installation' from a staging area without creating DB

> objects.
>
> 11. I didn't select the Intelligent Agent, but all other products listed.
>
> 12. During installation some parts of the documentation weren't copied.
That
> seems
> to be normal. I did a mkdir -p $ORACLE_HOME/doc/server.805/install/ as
> user oracle
> and did a retry in Oracle Installer. Everything worked fine...
>
> 13. After installation finished with success I executed the file root.sh
as
> root.
>
> 14. I tried to install the lnxpatch (one of the patches mentioned above).
> The SuSE instruction
> tells, that some errors are normal. So I ignored them. (some errors on
> cp , mv and gmake)
>
> 15. here comes the patch from 8.0.5.0.0 to 8.0.5.1.0. From
> $ORACLE_HOME/orainst I called
> ./orainst and selected Install, Upgrade, or De-Install Software and
> Add/Upgrade Software.
> The location of ORACLE_HOME was correct and I said Yes. The Installer
I
> gave the full path to
> the location of the 8051patch. (all as user oracle)
>
> 16. I selected both products.The Installer gives the following error:
>
> This os a patch release to be installed with version 8.0.5.0.0 of
> precompiler products. No precompiler products are found in this
> ORACLE_HOME. So, skipping precompiler patch set.
>
> But I selected the precompiler at the first step of installation.
>
>
> What is going wrong? Can I go on with the last patches and installations
> steps before the precompiler is installed? If yes, how do I go on? There
> is the last patch of archive oracle8051STD-suse62.tar.gz called patch.gz.
> As described at the SuSE instructions I tried to apply the patch. But
> I am asked for each file to be patched....
>
>
> Who can help me??
>
> Many thanks......
>
>
> Marcus
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 11 1999 - 04:25:47 CDT