Oracle uses the old glibc libraries, and Redhat installs these old libraries
by default; in Mandrake, you need to install them yourself. Do a search on
google,
there are a few pages worth reading about "Oracle install mandrake"
----- Original Message -----
From: "A V Flinsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Oracle on Mandrake
> 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)
>
>
