Re: Oracle 8.1.5 on redhat 6.0

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:33:40 -0400
Message-ID: <37C49974.9EDE8A6E@earthlink.net>

Gene Homan wrote:
>
> Maiko,
>
> DO NOT USE the Gnome interface when installing 8.1.5. There is a known
> problem with the Enlightenment manager and the OUI. Switch your desktop to
> KDE and try again. Hope this helps.
>
> Later,
> Gene....
>
> Maiko wrote in message <37c3806e.22913467_at_news.cistron.nl>...
> >Has anybody a good (step to step) pointer on how to install
> >
> >Oracle 8.1.5 on Redhat 6.0 linux
> >
> >As i am a newbie on Linux I don't know if I did all well, but
> >the fact is that
> >
> >a) my eth0 device fails at bootup (however this does not infect the
> >Oracle isntallation I think)
> >b) i installed the JRE (which Oracle says is required)
> >but... when i run ./runInstaller only a short period a window opens
> >and closes and it is telling me wait...
> >but i can wait and wait, nothing happens.
> >
> >If you have experience in installing Oracle 8.1.5 on redhat 6.0
> >please send me an e-mail on how you did it or an ICQ number.
> >
> >Mine is 5843294.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Maiko (mikje on ICQ)

What is that known problem? You should have told me that before I installed Oracle
on my RH 6.0 system with GNOME. My RDBMS is up and running, as well as GNOME.
Here is my setup:
Linux gogi 2.2.11 #4 Sun Aug 15 13:40:02 EDT 1999 i586 unknown

[oracle_at_gogi oracle]$ sqlplus /nolog

SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.5.0.0 - Production on Wed Aug 25 21:24:57 1999

(c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

SQL> connect internal
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 15912336 bytes

Fixed Size		      64912 bytes
Variable Size		    7188480 bytes
Database Buffers	    8388608 bytes
Redo Buffers		     270336 bytes

Database mounted.
Database opened.
SQL> LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 8.1.5.0.0 - Production on 25-AUG-99 21:26:14

(c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

Connecting to
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521))) STATUS of the LISTENER

---

Alias                     LISTENER
Version                   TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 8.1.5.0.0 -
Production
Start Date                25-AUG-99 19:28:03
Uptime                    0 days 1 hr. 58 min. 10 sec
Trace Level               off
Security                  OFF
SNMP                      OFF
Listener Parameter File   /disk1/oracle/home/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File         /disk1/oracle/home/network/log/listener.log
Services Summary...
  EXTPROC		has 1 service handler(s)
  x86		has 7 service handler(s)

The command completed successfully

As I am running GNOME, I would really like to know what problems should I expect. I haven't had any so far. I'm cheerfully using OCI and Perl/Tk to connect to Oracle and except some minor problems (incorrect protection of proc executable, needed to perform chmod o+x $ORACLE_HOME/lib
manually) all my programs have worked. I'll test external procedures this weekend.

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Mladen Gogala Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 20:33:40 CDT