Re: Need Patches for Solaris 8 with Oracle 8.1.7?

> Am installing Oracle8i 8.1.7 on a Solaris 8 (sparc) system. Have read the
> "Oracle 8i Release Notes" (Rel 3 for 8.1.7 for Sun SPARC Solaris). It
> lists
> Solaris patches that should be applied for the JRE and JDK.
>
> Are these patches required for Solaris 8 or only when running on Solaris 7
> or 2.6? The Oracle8i Installation Guide does not mention anything re
> Solaris 8 at all.

I'm not quite sure why the documentation says this. In my experiences, the only time you may *really* need a JRE is when installing the Oracle software. The Oracle Universal Installer is a java application so it needs a JRE to run. But the JRE that OUI will use is already on the CD. If you are not going to be doing any other java stuff on your server, then you will not need to install and/or update a JRE and JDK on the server. I have one server where we do not have any java stuff installed and I was able to install and run 8.1.6 on it just fine (Solaris 2.7).

HTH,
Brian

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