Oracle 8.1.7 will indeed install cleanly on RH 7.1. You can make your glibc libraries compatible. I'm not sure if you need all of these, but I just checked my installation directory and it appears that I installed the following RPMs:
compat-binutils-5.2-2.9.1.0.23.1.src.rpm compat-egcs-5.2-1.0.3a.1.src.rpm compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.2.src.rpm compat-libs-5.2-2.src.rpm You should be able to find these on RedHat's site. -Mike At 10:44 AM 10/05/2001, McLennan,Neil [PYR] wrote: >I have had similar trouble. When I try to install Oracle 9i over RH 7.1, I >get a large number of errors about missing files, I/O errors and makefile >problems. Oracle 8.1.7 will also not install cleanly on RH 7.1 due to glibc >incompatibilities. I will probably back-pedal to RH 7.0 and 8.1.7 as I have >this running on another box already. Very frustrating > >Neil > >-----Original Message----- >From: Philip Daggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: October 4, 2001 3:55 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: DBD::Oracle, Oracle Client on Red Hat 7.1 - sob story > > >To all: > >I am trying to connect to a remote Oracle server via DBD::Oracle from a Red >Hat 7.1 server and am having great difficulty getting the Oracle Client >and/or the DBD::Oracle module to install. (We are in the process of >migrating from a Windows NT server to Red Hat 7.1 and this is the last >hurdle for me to jump. We do not have (nor want to have) Oracle installed; >we would rather use something like SQLNet which was very easy to install on >the NT machine.) > >I have been told here and elsewhere that I need to 1) download the "entire" >Oracle installation; and 2) only install the Client portion. > >I first downloaded 3 gigantic Oracle9i files for Linux from Oracle.com. >When I finally got to the point of running the Installer, it did finish >successfully but said it had a couple problems because it could not find >about 9 library files which were supposed to be in the installation >directories. Since I got the "Successfully Installed" message I tried >installing DBD::Oracle: would not install without "force". (And yes I did >successfully install DBI.) > >After a few responses to my questions, I was advised to try Oracle8i >because "I've never tried Oracle9 and I know 8 works." > >Now I'm trying to install Oracle8i and the installer will not come up: the >whole thing hangs at the shell prompt with the process running in the >background. I thought I understood that the Oracle Installer gui would come >up but it doesn't. > >Question 1: Is there an easier way to do this?? > >Question 2: Can anybody give me some advice on getting Oracle to install >correctly?? > >Thanks, > >Phil > >818-393-4267
