Re: Failing to install Oracle under Redhat would SUSE be more easy ?

Why not read the documentation?

Is 8.1.7 certified for Linux 7.1?

If it is, have you followed the installation procedures properly?

If I, a mere Windows user, can knock up a 9i installation in 40 minutes these days, then it can't be that difficult -and I know bugger all about Linux.

You have to perform various actions as root before attempting the install, including setting the kernel parameters properly, and setting group and ownership permissions correctly. Then you need to make sure the oracle user's profile is correctly set with appropriate environment variable settings. And you have to make sure you are using the correct version of the glibc libraries, and have the right JRE installed.

Get that lot right, and it should be plain sailing.

So rather than "it's the distro's fault" or "Oracle's support for linux is crap", what and where exactly is it falling down? Something you are doing or not doing is [probably] the root cause.

Regards
HJR "Kim" <kim_at_costa.no> wrote in message
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> Hi..
>
> After trying and failing to install Oracle 8i under Redhat 7.1 Linux I
> now am close to giving up.. One option is to go for Informix that I
> belive has a better Linux support..
>
> Another one is to go for SUSE that might be better for for Oracle.. is
> this correct.. would installing Oracle for Linux be more easy on SUSE
> 7.2 ?
>
> Thanks !
Received on Tue Sep 11 2001 - 04:38:03 CDT