Re: Trying to install oracle 9i on a Redhat 7.2 :-/

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> > 1. Is it really necessary to change all those parameters in the kernel
> > that the installation file says? These shmmax, shmmin and so on. Three of
> > them, I can't even find in my /proc/sys/kernel directory. Note: My PC is a
> > PentiumII 350MhZ with 512MB RAM and 1,5GB swap.
> Yes it is necessary. You'll get intermittent end-of-file on communication
> channels if you don't set them properly.
Is it also necessary just for the installation? Another guy told me, that I shouldn't care about those parameters. And I don't think they have anything to do with me not being able to install? The installation doc says that I need to change those parameters and for them to take effect, I need to reboot.. but after reboot the changes are gone again. How do I make the changes stay? And three of the parameters that the installation doc says that I should change are not even to be found in my /proc/sys/kernel

> > 2. I haven't installed blackdown as the installation file says I must. The
> > installation file says that I must install jdk1.3.1_01 AND blackdown JRE -
> > but oracle also comes with its own JRE. Why all three of them? Are they
> > really necessary?
> Yes. The JRE it comes with is only for the use of the Installer itself.
> For the database to do its Java thing, it needs what the installation docs.
> say it needs.

Ok. So the blackdown JRE is not needed for the installation either?

> I can't comment directly on question 3, other than to say that if you follow
> the advice of the installation documents in respect of the earlier two
> questions, it shouldn't happen.

I have tried to my best effort to follow the guidelines. I don't find them very descriptive.

> In all seriousness, the installation documents aren't just thrown together
> for the hell of it, and the steps they outline are there for a reason.
Yes, but having followed exactly the steps I thought were necessary for the installation, I still failed.

[My environments]
> > setenv ORACLE_BASE /usr/local/oracle;
> > setenv ORACLE_HOME $ORACLE_BASE/product/9.0.1;
> > setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$ORACLE_HOME/lib

[My error]
> > When trying to install oracle 9i I get an error;
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lclntsh
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [wrap] Error 1

[The proposed solution]
> > The oracle-howto says that this is easily corrected. I just need to put
> > $ORACLE_HOME/lib in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH... but as you can see above, I
> > allready have it. I even tested that it is there by having the runinstall
> > script echo the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable before starting the actual
> > installation.

It still does not work. I get the exact same error. Couldn't find -lclntsh :-(

Any help to be found?

-- 
Eliasen Jr.