RE: 10gR2 no longer installs on non-supported Linux

From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:41:21 +0800
Message-ID: <1121823681.42ddabc1b1aa6@mail.iinet.net.au>

One extremely useful piece of news. Thanks a lot.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
from sunny Sydney

Quoting "oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org" <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>:

> Just took myself up on my own suggestion and modified the db_prereq.xml file
> to have the GLIBC dependency treated as a Warning, not an Error. This
> resulted in a successful custom install (w/o Enterprise Edition components
> and w/o XML Developer component) on my SuSE 9.1 (no errors in make.log),
> which it would refuse to do before the modification: my glibc is 2.3.2-88
> instead of the "required" 2.3.3 because, if I upgrade it, my WMWare
> Workstation 2.0.4 stops working and I have to install Windows on my home
> machine natively.
>
> Creating a database with dbca errored out initially because my libaio wasn't
> at least 0.3.96, but is running fine (it's now in the catalog creation stage)
> after I upgraded to 0.3.98.
>

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Received on Tue Jul 19 2005 - 20:43:22 CDT