[Nelug] Oracle on Linux

[Phil Britton]

simon.oldham at sicom-systems.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody know anything about installing Oracle on Linux (Mandrake 9.1)? 
> Although the problem may not be Oracle specific. 
> 
> Ok, here's what is happening. I have been using my Uni Oracle account (over 
> Telnet via an intermediate server - Telnet from my home to 'Uni server A' 
> then Telnet from 'Uni server A' to 'Uni server B') to mess about with PL/SQL. 
> However, when it comes to web interfaces, this system is no good because I 
> need to access the Oracle server directly thru a browser, and this is not 
> possible (as far as I can see ,because access to 'Uni server B' is blocked 
> outside of the Uni).
> So, the upshot of this is that I need to install Oracle on my own machine at 
> home. It is Oracle 8i (it is a CD that I have had for some time) and it came 
> in a tarball. Having untarred everything into a 'tmp' directory in my home 
> directory, I should just need to execute ./runInstaller and the 'Universal 
> Oracle Installer' should start - according to the Oracle docs.
> However, I get the following error :
> 
> 	bash: ./runInstaller: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> 
> if I try to run as root then the following happens :
> 
> 	The user is root. Oracle Universal Installer cannot continue installation if 
> 	the user is root.
> 	: No such file or directory
> 
> furthermore, the Oracle docs say that you should not install as root, instead 
> you will be prompted to enter the root pasword as and when.
> 
> Incidentally, the runInstaller script has full 777 permissions as does /bin/sh 
> (which is a link to /bin/bash).
> 
> I have enclosed a copy of the runInstaller script, in case it reveals the 
> problem (the *** are not part of the file):
> 
> *******************************************************************
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 
> 	# The environment variable $SRCHOME cannot be set during the installation
> 	unset SRCHOME
> 
> 	unset SHLIB_PATH
> 
> 	CMDDIR=`dirname $0`
> 
> 	if [ "$CMDDIR" = "." ];then
> 	   CMDDIR=`pwd`;
> 	fi
> 	# Replace relative path with fully qualified path.
> 	if [ ! "`echo $CMDDIR|grep '^/'`" ];then
> 	   CMDDIR=`pwd`/$CMDDIR;
> 	fi
> 
> 	if [ x${PATH} != x ] ; then
> 	  PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
> 	  export PATH
> 	else
> 	 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
> 	 export PATH
> 	fi
> 
> 	if [ x${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} != x ] ; then
> 	  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 	  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 	else
> 	 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib
> 	 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 	fi
> 
> 	THREADS_FLAG=native
> 	export THREADS_FLAG
> 	
> 
> 	cd $CMDDIR/install/linux
> 	./runInstaller $* &
> 
> **********************************************************************************
> 
> Can anyone help? - it is sooooo annoying.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Si :-(


Hi Si,

this question  (or something similar) comes up in the oracle newsgroups 
every day. First of all read the *all* of the installation documents and 
follow what it says about setting up oracle users and your kernel shared 
memory parameters. Oracle is a bit of a beast and the setup is a bit 
more complicated than just running the installer.

If you haven't got at least a 1GHz processor and at least 512MB Ram 
you'' be struggling.

I'm not sure about on Mandrake but I've heard that if you follow the Red 
Hat instructions then it works no problem on Mandrake.

This links might be useful:

  http://codah.net/install-oracle9iR2-on-redhat9.html

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Mandrake&btnG=
      Google+Search&meta=group%3Dcomp.databases.oracle.*

(don't forget to rejoin the second long one together in your browser)

Hope this helps

Phil