Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Installing Oracle 8.1.7 on Redhat 8.0

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Posted by Tom Jackson on

Yippie! It worked! :)

Thanks for all the help. Janine, apparently LS_... isn't good enough, I had a typo in my startup script. So it all works with just LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5, and the glibc stub patch.

I really need to collect togeather the problems I ran into in locating software, adjusting scripts, etc. This installation is all but impossible, I would think, for a new user to get this right. Although the general outline is right, the few details that have changed over time make installation a real minefield. It is also so long that I can see why keeping the install document up-to-date is so difficult.

I also did something different this time around: I didn't copy software from a previous install. Believe it or not, it isn't easy locating stuff even if you know it exists.

I also recorded as many steps as possible, using a new program that records and executes commands. Oracle was the real problem, since it uses the runInstaller, but the docs are current for this section of the install.