Re: Oracle 8i install on Suse 8.0

I've just succeeded in getting 8.1.7 to install on SuSE 7.3.

I found that SuSE's Oracle 8.1.7 Support page immensely helpful in doing this (I got at it from the Oracle Support matrix page
http://www.suse.de/uk/business/certifications/certified_software/oracle/index.html - click on the appropriate box in the matrix). But there were a few other things I had to sort out myself (in addition to "unset LANG" mentioned below): Oracle expects Java to be in /usr/local/java and is very choosy in the version it needs - I linked it to Oracle's version in the installation media. Also after applying the glibc patch (needed to get dbassist to work) I needed to revert to the old version of svrmgr.

I should imagine that thing's won't be that different for 8.1.7 on SuSE 8.0, which according to the matrix is already certified.

Regards Phil Griffiths

Tim Ashman wrote:

> dmz17 wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:07:16 +0000, Tim Ashman wrote:
> >
> >
> > >I'm receiving a SIGSERV error when running the installer for 8i. It has
> > >something to do with loading the jvm and libjava.so.
> > >
> > >I've searched google and haven't found anyone else having this problem.
> > > Can anyone point me in the right direction.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Without any extensive investigation I'd say 8i is not nor will it ever be
> > certified for SuSE 8.0.
> >
> > If you can get hold of 9iR2 I know for a fact that it will install.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > dmz17
>
> I've thought of that. My reason for installation is as a test bed and
> backup server to an already existing 8i install on HP-UX.
>
> I have found a way past the SIGSERV I had to do one little thing
>
> unset LANG
>
> Then the installer ran.
>
> Now what happens is that it goes through the entire install until it
> tries to link in everything then it bombs, I think this might be that I
> don't have any C++ development package installed, so tomorrow I'll
> tackle this.
Received on Sat Oct 26 2002 - 20:33:42 CDT