Has anyone yet tried to install the 64 bit version of Oracle 10g on a
Debian or Ubuntu AMD64 (aka, x86_64, either AMD or Intel emt64)
system? I am going to try that soon, but this thread seems to point
out problems:
installing Oracle on Debian AMD64.
Apparently,
Debian on AMD64
is currently "pure 64 bit"; they have not yet added the
planned "multi arch" support. Their
AMD64 How-To
talks about adding a 32 bit chroot in order to run 32 bit binaries;
that doesn't sound so great, but I'm not sure if that's merely
unpleasnt or really awful.
Red Hat and SuSE, on the other hand, are currently doing mixed 32/64
bit systems, with 32 bit stuff in /lib and 64 bit in /lib64. From the
thread above, it sounds like the Oracle installer (and possibly some
other utilities) are still 32 bit only, and assume a Red Hat style
mixed system.
I don't look forward to trying to get this to work, but it
sounds like it's really just the Oracle installer that has
problems. And AFAIK Oracle's silly Java installer doesn't really do
much other than copy files around, so perhaps there is some way to get
this to work.
Gee, there isn't a proper deb (or even rpm) package available for
Oracle 10g, is there?
