From: Pascal Byrne Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle 8i on Linux. Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:43:12 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <3D7B684B.8DC59B50@mail.zingaretti.com> Reply-To: wehatesspam@nospam.org NNTP-Posting-Host: icada2she.icada.de (212.21.163.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1031557341 60538329 212.21.163.7 (16 [147008]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us I installed 8.1.7 on SuSE 7.2 relatively painlessly. The most serious problem I faced was getting the Java apps to work. The trick is to unset all shell localisation variables that deal with messeges before you run the app unset LANG unset LC_ALL unset LC_MESSAGES Spam Meister wrote: > Has anyone setup the oracle 8i system on any version of linux? > > Can i get some feedback? like what version of linux and what > disto? > > I am very interested to know if this is worth the effort, i > client i work for > needs a qa/dev db setup and this would be great way to go but i > dont > want to burn alot of time on it if it doesnt work! > > Thanks, > -Tom- >