I have Oracle 8.1.7 running on rh7.1 . It works fine . I searched through
newsgroups and found some solutions to the
problems that i encountered . Let me know if you are going to install this
version and run into problems .
--
Sathish B
"Paul Fagan" <paul.fagan_at_bt.com> wrote in message
news:20011121.013531.1884661237.3049_at_bt.com...
> Jack,
>
> I know SUSE support Oracle see : -
>
> http://www.suse.de/us/support/oracle/
>
> I have used Oracle 9i on Redhat 7.3 ext3 filesystem no problem (there is
> one bug on installation that I found, it can be reolved via Oracle
> Metalink).
>
> See below for bug resolution : -
>
> * fact: Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition 9.0.1
> * fact: Intel Based Server LINUX
> * fact: RedHat 7.1
> * symptom: Installation fails
> * symptom: Error during linking
> * symptom: ins_plsql.mk
> * cause: <BUG:1843232>. Versions of ld prior to version 2.11 ignored
the "-z defs" flag. ld version 2.11 and later have the ability to use this
flag. Because of this the genclntsh script fails to produce the libclntsh.so
library on a machine running ld > 2.11. The "-z defs" is set in the variable
LD_SELF_CONTAINED in the genclntsh script.
>
>
>
> fix:
>
> When receiving this error during installation, follow these steps:
>
> 1. Open a new console window on the host as the installation user.
> 2. Set up the Oracle environment (i.e. ORACLE_HOME).
> 3. Make a backup of the $ORACLE_HOME/genclntsh script.
> 4. Remove the ${LD_SELF_CONTAINED} flag from the ld command in the 'Create
> Library' section.
> 5. Run the genclntsh script.
> 6. Click on 'Retry' in the Universal Installer
>
> The installation will now proceed.
>
> This should be fixed in 9.0.2
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Paul.
>
> In article <9terjl$iii$1_at_innbox.cnet.com>, "Jack Dawson" <srik_at_cnet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am planning to install RedHat Linux on my machine? What Oracle Version
> > does this Linux support?
> >
> > Any feedback is tremendously appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jack...
> >
> >
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 20:32:51 CST
