Re: Oracle 8i Install On Redhat 9

"Joydeep" <joy_deep_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9a11504a.0305072256.395f66c4_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 9. I downloaded
> the Oracle software and the stub from the OTN site. Installed Java
> 1.1.8. Created oracle user and the usergroup dba,oinstall and oper.
> Installed compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.14,compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 and
> compat-libs-6.2-3. Changed the bash_profile. Now my bash_profile looks
> like this :
> ***********************************************************
> # .bash_profile
>
> # Get the aliases and functions
> if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
> . ~/.bashrc
> fi
>
> # User specific environment and startup programs
> umask 022
> EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR
> TERM=xterm; export TERM
> TMPDIR=/tmp; export TMPDIR
>
> # +--------------------------+
> # | SETUP ORACLE ENVIRONMENT |
> # +--------------------------+
>
> export ORACLE_SID=orcl
> export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
> export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
> export TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
>
> export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
> export ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
>
> export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle
> export ORACLE_TERM=xterm
>
> # +--------------------------+
> # | LINUX STUFF |
> # +--------------------------+
>
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> . /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh
>
> # +--------------------------+
> # | SETUP SEARCH PATH |
> # +--------------------------+
>
>

PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/opt/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X 11R6/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:.
> export PATH
>
> # +--------------------------+
> # | SETUP JAVA ENVIRONMENT |
> # +--------------------------+
>
> export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
>
> export

CLASSPATH=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/jdbc/lib/classes12.zip:/opt/oracle/produ ct/8.1.7/JRE:/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/jlib:/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/ jlib:/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/jlib:.
>
>
> unset USERNAME
> *******************************************
>
> Then, I ran runInstaller from Disk1/install/linux/ folder. It went
> smoothly except later, in some of the modules, when it tried to relink
> it failed. I clicked ignore in those cases. After that I cancelled the
> net8 configuration, database creation and the apache server
> configuration.
> Now when I applied the stub, it failed saying "error while loading
> shared libraries: libclntsh.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file".
> The stub also changed svrmgrl and sqlplus to svrmgrlO and sqlplusO in
> $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.
> Now I cannot find libclntsh.so.8.0 anywhere in my my pc. I don't know
> from where I can download it.
>
> Please help me fix this problem.
>
> You can mail me at joy_deep_at_yahoo.com
>
> Regards,
>
> Joydeep

Hi

I remember last time I installed it on RedHat 9 I had a bit of trouble doing so, but in the end I got it going. I have to do another installation this afternoon, so I shall let you know how it goes.

Regards,

Chris Received on Thu May 08 2003 - 05:02:49 CDT