On Saturday 13 January 2001 11:21, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A colleague of mine was trying to install Oracle on his Mandrake 7.2
> box, but it appears there's some issues with the glibc version that
> Mandrake uses. Works perfectly on a RedHat 7.0 box though...
>
> I was wondering, since I'm about to buy a new harddrive and was
> planning on installing Oracle myself, are there any known issues with
> Oracle on Mandrake, and if so: what are the workarounds?
>
> Any suggestions from veterans who been trough this before are greatly
> appreciated; saves me & my colleagues the work of reinventing the wheel
> again... If possible, incluede [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the cc-field of your replies as well. Thanx.
This might depend on which version of Oracke that you are trying to
intsall. The latest & greatest (8.1.7, Oracle8iR3) installs without a
problem on Mandrake 7.2. I have heard of 8.1.7 having problems with the
glibc version shipped with Redhat 7.0 however.
Oracle products on my system include
Oracle 8i R3 (8.1.7)
WebDB
Developer6i
Of these, the only one that gave me any problems during the install was
Developre. It seems that lesstif is not completely compatible with modit,
to solve the Developer installation problem, I needed to uninstall
lesstif and install openmotif. Since then everything works great.
Prior to installing 8.1.7, I had 8.1.6 installed. This also went in
without any problems also.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
