Oracle 8i on Debian - help needed

From: Bill Geddes <geddes_at_col.hp.com>
Date: 27 Mar 2000 19:22:23 GMT
Message-ID: <8bocdf$ssl$1@nonews.col.hp.com>

I am attempting to get Oracle 8i installed and running on my Debian GNU Linux server - kernel is 2.2.14, Debian 2.2 (potato).

First problem encountered - JRE (Java Runtime Environment) Oracle hard-codes /usr/local/bin as the path to jre, whereas the Debian jdk1.1 package installs it into /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/jre. I symlinked jre to /usr/local/bin, then ran Oracle's runInstall.sh script - it failed. However, I discovered that if I run this script passing a phoney (or profane!) argument, it indeed fires up it's java GUI, and proceeds to allow me to install the Oracle 8.1.5 server.

I'm not sure anything works yet, but I do have a bunch of oracle code installed.

Second problem encountered - building and installing the Oracle DBD driver for perl DBI.
There were library problems here. Someone from the dbi-users mailing list sent me a patch to install. That didn't work. I still get error messages that it cannot find libclntsh.so.8.0.

Has anyone out there encountered these, or similar problems? Any remedies?

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Bill Geddes bill_geddes_at_agilent.com
(719) 590-3556 Received on Mon Mar 27 2000 - 13:22:23 CST