Oracle on Linux

I tried to install Oracle 8 on a Slackware box today, but I got several compilation errors. The box is at work and I'm at home now so I can't post the specific error, but IIRC it was trying to make plsql or sqlplus and the error was something about "ld cannot find lnsl" or something like that. Sorry I can't be more
specific. I guess what I really want to know is: if anyone out there has installed Oracle on Slackware successfully, can you give me a step by step guide to how its done? I'd really appreciate it!

Another question: can I only install sqlplus and not the Oracle rdbms? All I really want to do is query an oracle 7.3 database running on an Alpha server (Digital Unix 4.0d) using sqlplus on my Linux box. I don't really want an Oracle database on my Linux box, if I don't have to have one to make sqlplus work.

We have sqlplus for Win95 installed and we can query the Alpha/Oracle database from Win95. I want to be able to do queries from Linux too! Of course, I could always telnet into the Alpha from Linux and sqlplus myself silly, but thats not what I want to do.

Thanks for any help!
Eddie Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 20:11:27 CDT