pgreen2000
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Fedora 7 Packages needed to install Oracle 10gR2
I am preparing for an install of Oracle 10g Release 2 on Fedora 7.
Oracle documentation says the following packages are required:
The following packages (or later versions) must be installed:
*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0, and Asianux 1.0 and Asianux 2.0
make-3.79.1
gcc-3.2.3-34
glibc-2.3.2-95.20
compat-db-4.0.14-5
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.12
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3
openmotif21-2.1.30-8
setarch-1.3-1
*
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
gcc-3.3.3-43
gcc-c++-3.3.3-43
glibc-2.3.3-98
libaio-0.3.98-18
libaio-devel-0.3.98-18
make-3.80
openmotif-libs-2.2.2-519.1
I am presuming that as Fedora is based on Red Hat, that I can use the Red Hat instructions?
Some of the packages are not on my Fedora 7 system. I have managed to download some of them, but some of them do not seem to be in the Fedora 7 repository at all.
A quick guide to an Oracle install at this page:
http://ivan.kartik.sk/oracle/install_ora10gR2_fedora.html
indicates that some of the packages may be in the Fedora 4 repository, which I found at:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
My questions fall into 2 areas:
1) How to use the Fedora Package Manager?
I tried to add
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/
as the location of the Fedora 4 repository but the package manager kept rejecting it, saying
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Fedora 4. Please verify its path and try again"
2a) Why are some of the packages listed by Oracle above not available in Fedora 7? Is their functionality superseded by newer packages and I don't need to download them?
2b) On some of the packages that are there, the version numbers in Fedora 7 are newer, presumably they will still work, even though the filenames look slightly different to me due to the version numbers at the end?
2c) In summary, how can I find and download the packages I need?
Oracle documentation says the following packages are required:
The following packages (or later versions) must be installed:
*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0, and Asianux 1.0 and Asianux 2.0
make-3.79.1
gcc-3.2.3-34
glibc-2.3.2-95.20
compat-db-4.0.14-5
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.12
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3
openmotif21-2.1.30-8
setarch-1.3-1
*
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
gcc-3.3.3-43
gcc-c++-3.3.3-43
glibc-2.3.3-98
libaio-0.3.98-18
libaio-devel-0.3.98-18
make-3.80
openmotif-libs-2.2.2-519.1
I am presuming that as Fedora is based on Red Hat, that I can use the Red Hat instructions?
Some of the packages are not on my Fedora 7 system. I have managed to download some of them, but some of them do not seem to be in the Fedora 7 repository at all.
A quick guide to an Oracle install at this page:
http://ivan.kartik.sk/oracle/install_ora10gR2_fedora.html
indicates that some of the packages may be in the Fedora 4 repository, which I found at:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
My questions fall into 2 areas:
1) How to use the Fedora Package Manager?
I tried to add
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/
as the location of the Fedora 4 repository but the package manager kept rejecting it, saying
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: Fedora 4. Please verify its path and try again"
2a) Why are some of the packages listed by Oracle above not available in Fedora 7? Is their functionality superseded by newer packages and I don't need to download them?
2b) On some of the packages that are there, the version numbers in Fedora 7 are newer, presumably they will still work, even though the filenames look slightly different to me due to the version numbers at the end?
2c) In summary, how can I find and download the packages I need?
Mark Geerlings
Fedora is not a certified O/S for Oracle. That doesn't mean that you can't get Oracle to run on Fedora, but it may take some extra effort on your part. Also, you will not be able to get support for Oracle on Fedora, so it may be OK for testing, but I wouldn't want to run a production database on an unsupported O/S.
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