Installing Oracle 8i on Linux

Hello

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At school, I've been learning how to work with Oracle. They used Windows NT clients, but at home I'm used to using Linux, so I downloaded Oracle 8i EE for Linux to be able to practice at home.

Since yesterday evening, I've been trying to install it several times, but have not been able to connect to my local database server using sqlplus.
I installed a 'typical' installation, plus the 'programmer' client. Is that enough, or did I forget something?
In this situation, when I try to run sqlplus, it tells me:

Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus

And I get back to my prompt.
Can anyone tell me what I should do to be able to log on?

TIA, Wouter

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