Re: [newbie] Why does not my installer start?
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:27:45 GMT
Message-ID: <R8sWa.4883$BD3.2383038_at_juliett.dax.net>
Steve wrote:
hmmm, I believed that since I was able to start other graphical
programs, as Mozilla, from xterm, I were able to start the
installer as well. (Silly me...)
> "ketil V." <ketil_v_at_c2i.net> wrote in message news:<z%9Wa.4806$BD3.2374054_at_juliett.dax.net>...
>
>>I am trying to install Oracle 8.1.7-3 on a clean SuSE 8.2 -
>>based system, but the Installer will not pop up any interface!
>>
>>What I have done is the following:
>>- Installed 8.2, and upgraded with the latest patches using
>> YaST2
>>- Installed Blackdown JRE, so there is a
>> /usr/local/jdk118_v3 - directory with the correct Java
>>- Created a soft link from this directory to /usr/local/java
>>- Installed orarin81.rpm, unpacked the 8.1.7 tar-file from
>> Oracle to /install/
>>- Created a oracle home with the info from /etc/skel/ as
>> suggested in the SuSE paper 718_sles7_install.pdf
>>- Logged in (KDE) as user oracle, started xterm and ran
>> /install/Disk1/runInstaller
>>
>>This not did the trick, so I started from scratch once more,
>>WITHOUT updating the distro, in case SuSE have any updated RPMs
>>with side effects.
>>
>>When this did not solve the problem either, I tried to unset the
>>variables LANG, LC_CTYPE, RC_TYPE and LC_COLLATE in the xterm I
>>use to start the runInstaller script.
>>
>>Now, the runInstaller script make the prompt free again, and a
>>ps -a shows both runInstaller and jre running. The processor is
>>working hard on something, so something have happened.
>>
>>But the installer is still not visible...
>>
>>Dows anybody have any suggestions about
>>what I might be missing ?
>>
>>- The computer got 320 MB RAM, so I dont think that should be
>>the problem...
>
>
> Because you haven't set the DISPLAY variable correctly.
What is the values for the DISPLAY variable? - Ideally I would like to run the installer from a xterm console on a remote computer, via ssh (ssh 192.168.2.96 -loracle) Received on Fri Aug 01 2003 - 13:27:45 CEST