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From: Jan Bols <jan@ivpv.ugent.be>
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Subject: Re: Error while installing 8.1.7 on Linux
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:19:42 +0200
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Alexander,
just last week I was in the same position as you where.

If you want to install 8.1.7 you have to take care of the following 
things. I followed the instructions of the page on the following link: 
http://www.bioweircom.org/HotTopics/oracle-8.1.7.html

But with a few adaptations.

This is what I did to get it running:

1. First of all you have to specify LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 but I see you 
figured that out already. Also make sure you put the following things in 
your .bashrc or similar:
edit .bashrc
#---------ORALCE settings---------
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/8.1.7
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8
ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME NLS_LANG ORA_NLS33 PATH

2. Second, if you want to have apache for Oracle running I believe you 
have to install jdk 1.1.8. It's available on the blackdown site 
http://www.blackdown.com/. You have tot choose the glibc version. 
Install it under /usr/local/java or similar.

3. When installing Oracle you must have booted from the vmlinuz kernel 
and not the vmlinuz-secure kernel which is selected by default at 
boottime. (This is the reason why I spent a day full of frustration when 
installing oracle on my linux)

4. You can install oracle choosing the typical installation or the 
minimal or the custom one.

5. The installer will install all the files and afterwards will start 
linking. At 65% it will start complaining. Just click on the ignore 
button at all of these warning.

6. Near the end of the installation, the installer will prompt you to 
run $ORACLE_HOME/root.sh as root. This file has two errors in it, so 
before you run it make the following changes:

Change line 102 from:
RMF=/bin/rm -f
to:
RMF="/bin/rm -f"

Change line 156 from:
RUID=`/usr/bin/id|$AWK -F\( '{print $2}'|$AWK -F\) '{print $1}`
to:
RUID=`/bin/id|$AWK -F\( '{print $2}'|$AWK -F\) '{print $1}'`
#NOTE: /usr/bin becomes /bin AND '{print $1} becomes '{print $1}'

7. At the end of the installation, the installer will try to run three 
configuration wizards: the Net8 Configuration Assistant, the Oracle 
Database Configuration Assistant, and the Apache Web Server 
Configuration Assistant. You should stop all of them. You will run them 
later. After this your installer is done and you should exit it.

8. Now copy the glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar.gz patch to your $ORACLE_HOME dir, 
untar it and run setup_stubs.sh

9. run the 2 patches on the install CD:
- Disk1/patch/bug1538440
     export TOP_PATCH_DIR=/tmp/public/download/Disk1/patch/bug1538440
     run ./README.1538440
     run /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/root.sh as root to complete 
installation of the patch
- Disk1/patch/bug1542738
     First edit README.1542738 to use #!/bin/bash
     run ./README.1542738

10. Change your .bashrc or similar so that they include the following:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ORACLE_SID=#your_SID
JRE_Location=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE
CLASSPATH1=$JRE_Location:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbm/jlib:
CLASSPATH2=$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/plsql/jlib:
CLASSPATH3=$ORACLE_HOME/owm/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/assistants/jlib:
CLASSPATH4=$ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbma/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/jlib:
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH1$CLASSPATH2$CLASSPATH3$CLASSPATH4$CLASSPATH
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
TWO_TASK=#net service name of the database
export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME NLS_LANG ORA_NLS33 PATH
export CLASSPATH JRE_Location ORACLE_SID LD_LIBRARY_PATH

11. run dbassist

12. restart the listener
     lsnrctl stop
     lsnrctl start

13. run netasst
edit $ORACLE_HOME/bin/netasst:
change from:
#$JRE -classpath $CLASSPATH oracle.net.asst....
to:
$JRE -nojit  -classpath $CLASSPATH oracle.net.asst...


That should be it.

Hope this works.


Jan Bols