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installing Oracle9i on Red-Hat

im new to the Linux environment and have donloaded the Oracle9i database from the oracle website. im having a bit of trouble installing it though.

can anyone give me a walkthru of some kind?

marxy

That's not a simple operation but it's possible :-)
Read this excelent instructions here
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Oracle-9i-RH8-and-RH9-HOWTO.html

minichicken

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i think i tried it, but i'll go through it a bit more carefully

thanks

minichicken

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i'm running Red-Hat Enterprise Server 3

it had its own uncompression application (like winzip).

do you know of any other quick and easy tools i can use rather in ES3?

minichicken

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basically i cant get it to run the installer.

it says:

The user is root. Oracle Universal Installer cannot continue installation if the user is root.
: No such file or directory

surya_prabhakar

run it as a normal user . dont run it as root .

minichicken

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./runInstaller

"gives me this now"

Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-02_02-03-41PM/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

surya_prabhakar

you need to install this rpm compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122

find it on the cd and install it

# rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122.rpm

surya.

minichicken

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what is it?

minichicken

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what file do i search for?

surya_prabhakar

if you have rhel cd's get the file from the cd that is the file name I gave you .
that is the library missing on your system which is required by oracle .

this is the file compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122.rpm

surya.

minichicken

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doing a search now.

cd 2/9

minichicken

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found it on cd3 but i get this error now!

Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-02_02-51-36PM/jre/bin/java. Please wait...
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load native library: /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-02_02 Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-02_02-51-36PM/jre/bin/java. Please wait...
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load native library: /tmp/OraInstall2005-03-02_02-51-36PM/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
-51-36PM/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

minichicken

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check this.

if i login in as 'root' and i run the 'runInstaller.sh' it basically gives this:

[root@localhost root]# sh runInstaller
[]

and the cursor just sits and blinks on where '[]' is (on the second line)

any clues???

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minichicken

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yeah i did find that yesterday as well thanks.

the only problem is that i cant find the patches for download anywhere.

i got so anoid, i have installed SuseES over it and deleted RHES3 os

thanks for the help anyway man.

i will accept your answer, but may need help with the SuseES-Oracle install

i will let you know how it goes

Anonymouslemming

You're quite likely to need the same patches for SLES that you do for RHEL. The problem is that with Oracle, you have to be a metalink subsriber (which costs) to get patches :(