Re: Installing Oracle 19c (19.7) on Oracle Linux 8.2......

Yes, OL8 hsa 'dnf' (Dandified Yum), which is the yum replacement. But, on OL8, yum and dnf are both syminks to the same file.

-Mark

-Mark

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:42 PM Clay Jackson (cjackson) < Clay.Jackson_at_quest.com> wrote:

> It’s even worse switching between Ubuntu, Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) and OEL
> 😊. Yum, Apt, systemd, systemctl; and the list goes on. I actually
> have a shell script named “apt” in /usr/local/bin that echoes, “You’re on
> OEL, try yum” I guess I’ll have to change that when (not this year!) I
> move to OEL 8.
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> *Clay Jackson*
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> I'm (slowly) getting used to systemd. I've even written a few of my own
> (simple) services, and that went ok....
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> I'm sure they'll change it again any day now.... :-)
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> -Mark
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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:03 AM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ha! It's systemd that winds me up irrationally.
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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:55 AM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the feedback.
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> I know this is one of those things, like using ip instead of ifconfig,
> that once I start using I'll never go back, but the activation energy to
> force myself to override decades of habit is often too much.
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> It's funny how I'm so into change in Oracle, but for other things I'm a
> stubborn old goat.
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> CHeers
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> Tim...
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:50 PM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not a huge amount to be honest, I'm not a fan of the old-style sending
> characters to disk. Our scripts now use code like the line below to create
> a new aligned GPT partition that essentially fills the disk. Just feels
> easier to understand than the fdisk alternative.
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> parted -s -a optimal "$disk" mklabel gpt -- mkpart primary ext4 1MiB -2048s
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:29 PM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:
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> I'm curious. I still use fdisk because I'm lazy I guess. Apart from the
> 2TB limit for fdisk, is there anything else that makes parted better than
> fdisk?
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