Re: Oracle 8i on Debian - help needed

Bill Geddes <geddes_at_col.hp.com> writes:

> I am attempting to get Oracle 8i installed and running on my
> Debian GNU Linux server - kernel is 2.2.14, Debian 2.2 (potato).
>
> First problem encountered - JRE (Java Runtime Environment)
> Oracle hard-codes /usr/local/bin as the path to jre, whereas the
> Debian jdk1.1 package installs it into /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/jre.
> I symlinked jre to /usr/local/bin, then ran Oracle's runInstall.sh
> script - it failed. However, I discovered that if I run this
> script passing a phoney (or profane!) argument, it indeed fires
> up it's java GUI, and proceeds to allow me to install the
> Oracle 8.1.5 server.
>
> I'm not sure anything works yet, but I do have a bunch of
> oracle code installed.
>
> Second problem encountered - building and installing the Oracle
> DBD driver for perl DBI.
> There were library problems here. Someone from the dbi-users
> mailing list sent me a patch to install. That didn't work.
> I still get error messages that it cannot find
> libclntsh.so.8.0.

Did you apply the 8.1.5.0.2 patch from Oracle?

I have DBD::Oracle 1.03 working with Perl-5.005 using it.

Even though this is for Redhat, it may also be of some help:

  http://technet.oracle.com/tech/linux/htdocs/install.pdf

libclntsh should be in $ORACLE_HOME/lib (and that envinroment variable must be exported).

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