| | Oracle 10g on Debian-Last Updated-September 26,2005 |
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| Oracle on Linux
Since Oracle 9i oracle released there Linux version on several certified distributions. Only few commercial distributions were supported (or certified at that momnent), at the time of writing RedHat, United Linux and Suse. Though Oracle supported on Redhat Enterprice Edition (RHAS/RHEL3) there are enough howto\'s to install Oracle on FC and other RH variants.
Oracle Universal Insataller (OUI) is the barrier in installing Oracle on uncertified Liunux distributions. It checks for prerequisits in the target system. There are several ways to overcome this situation. Most of the howto\'s described ways to fake the distribution identification. Luckily OUI comes with a command line option to skip prerequisite check easily.
Where to get Oracle?
Most of the Oracle binary installations (for many platforms) can be downloaded from Oracle web sire.
Preparing the OS
Follow instructions in the readme.html, which you can find on the Installation CD to set required (prefered, without these changes still it works - Worked for me!!!) kernel parameters. Ensure that following packages are installed and are matching the correct version.
- make
- binutils
- openmotif
- Berkley DB
- gcc
- g++
- libstdc
- libstdc-dev
Out of these packages openmotif was broken with Seven (7) cd\'s of my Sarge 3.1, therefore I compiled the code (with standard options).
Note: need to create a user and a group to run oracle installer.
Running the Installer
Login to the X-windows system with the created Oracle user. If your system directly boot to X-window (kdm, xdm) then login to the system with the newly created password. If you\'re a typomatic personality (like myself) do a \'su - [oracle user]\' and the load the X-window system.
open a terminal (xterm, KDE terminal, gterm) and change directory to CDROM root. In this path youll find the \'runInstaller\' script. execute this file with the following option.
$ ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
WARNING: Skipping prerequisites will leave you incharge of the whole installation process. OUI will not complain on any of the prerequisits and make sure you have installed all the required packages.
Once the installer lanches, follow the onscreen instructions. For more information on the installation precess, refer the documentation.
Errors
Installation might fail on few occations while linking binaries, depending on the installed packages and versions. If the mentioned packages are installed preoperly, it is likely that you can simply igonore these errors. If error count exceed three there is a cpossibility one of the prereqs are not met. You can inspect any missing packages (or file information) on the log files in oraInsall directory. |
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