On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, A. M. Varon wrote:
> Hi, > > Anybody has experiences running Oracle on a potato system? > > regards, I am running 8.0.5 without problems now. However the install was something to mention. In the following I assume you have installed oracle on another linux. If you haven't, then see the document I mention at the end of my letter, for a step-by-step instruction list. However, you have to compare it with my letter, since some things need to be done differently in debian. So read both before starting to install oracle. In short: you need to debianize a couple of redhat packages with alien. alien <redhatpackagefilename> These packages are: compat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.i386.rpm compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm compat-egcs-c++-5.2-1.0.3a.1.i386.rpm compat-libs-5.2-1.i386.rpm These can be found on RH6.0 and RH 6.1 mirrors in the RPMS directory. After installing them, you need to chmod +x the following files: /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/ld-2.0.7.so .../libc.so .../libc-2.0.7.so The first is mandatory, the other two I am not sure, I chmoded them as well. You must also link to make as gmake ln -s /usr/bin/make /usr/local/bin/gmake After this, you can install oracle 8.0.5 almost normally, except one thing: the oratab.sh in orainst does not run properly on debian. You must change the references to the GROUPS variable in it to somethin else, since GROUPS varaible is readonly in bash. I don't know about this in sh. What I did was to replace GROUPS to GROUPSPROG. take care however not to replace GROUPS in ALL_GROUPS. After this install oracle, but don't create the database objects. Before running root.sh, you need to patch the oracle binaries. The patch tarball is at ftp://ftp.oracle.com/pub/www/otn/linux/glibcpatch.tgz Extract it to ~oracle/orapatch cd into ~oracle/orapatch sh glibcpatch.sh It will take a little time to complete, there can be error messages along the way, but they don't matter. They are missing files you did not install because you not selected everything. Type sqlplus to check that it worked. If it segfaults then you have missed something. If it gives you the normal sqlplus prompt, then the patching was successful. After this you can create the DB objects normally (you need to select the RDBMS Standard item again). You must do this with the Install parts menu item, since not everything is installed yet, so Create/Upgrade DB objects won't work yet. There is a couple of editing and chmod-ing and chown-ing to do... After this it will work flawlessly. See more details in http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html Instead of machinating with .profile files as described in that document, just put the following in /etc/profile, modified accordingly to your install decisions, but before installing, to spare yourself some problem: export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle export ORACLE_HOME=/store/oracle export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/store/oracle/lib export ORACLE_BASE=/store/oracle export ORACLE_SID=ORCL export ORACLE_TERM=386 export ORACLE_DOC=/store/oracle/doc and add /store/oracle/bin to the PATH statement. The oracle TNS listener can only be started as user oracle. If you need it to start at boot-up, then you need to do some more compiling other packages (daemontools from Daniel J. Berstein). Send a letter if you are interested in it. Robert Varga
