On Saturday 19 May 2001 19:19, moses wrote:
> has anybody gotten Oracle 8i to install on Mandrake 8.0 i did get it to
> install on a SuSE 7.1 Pro box with a -unset Lang command first, this
> has not worked for LM 8.0 any ideas i would like to keep LM 80 it just
> feels better
I have installed Oracle 8i (8.1.7), WebDB & Dev6i on a Mandrake 8.0
machine, here are the details....
1 - update to glibc-2.2.2-5mdk this is the latest one released by
Mandrake and was specifically issued for the oracle installer problem
(one of them)
2 - if you need to run dbassist (to create a database), get the
glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar.gz fix
from otn, to find it, go to the same page you can download 8.1.7 from
(IOW a pain to get to)
3 - install 8i, but do not create the database
4 - apply the stubs patch from Oracle, make sure that you read the
instructions!
5 - run dbassist and create the database.
At this point, oracle was running, but any access to it gave "oracle not
available" errors. Shutting down oracle and restarting it fixed the
problem, whatever it was.
6 - ran webdb installer, no problems in the install
7 - from prior experience, I remembered to remove lesstif, and install
openmotif before starting the dev6i install
8 - installed dev6i no problems in the install, but the web based reports
server does not seem to be working (web forms server is working), still
gotta work that out. Most likely a borked config file somewhere.
--
Alex
Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
