Re: [newbie] Why does not my installer start?

"ketil V." <ketil_v_at_c2i.net> wrote in message news:<R8sWa.4883$BD3.2383038_at_juliett.dax.net>...
> Steve wrote:
> > "ketil V." <ketil_v_at_c2i.net> wrote in message news:<z%9Wa.4806$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.
>
> 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...)
>
> 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)

<name or ip of your terminal>:0.0

On the server :0 should be sufficient

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Mon Aug 04 2003 - 09:39:24 CEST