Re: How to install Oracle 9.2 on RedHat 9.0?

From: Nick Keeman <nkeeman_at_linuxmail.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:36:06 +0200
Message-ID: <3EAC4D46.5070708@linuxmail.org>

Thanx Dave,

I actually like RH90 because of the improved Mozilla, screensavers and my "xmms" finally works without problems. So far it didn't let me down once.

As I understand from your reply I understand its difficult to install Oracle on a non certified release. So it was in the past and then they always found some workarounds. In my case I actually only need the SQL-Plus and OEM client to work which might work fine, would it?

Would you reckon its worth a try installing the client software and skip installation of the 9.2.0.3 patch.

Nick

Dave Hau wrote:
> "Nick Keeman" <nkeeman_at_linuxmail.org> wrote in message
> news:b8egsa$81t$1_at_news.hccnet.nl...
>

>>Hi Guru's,
>>
>>I've got Oracle 9.2 running on RedHat 8.0 but would like to move to
>>RedHat 9.0.  I've heard it doesn't work as the new kernel uses a new way
>>of Processing causing Oracle 9.2 no have problems.  


>>
>>Any work arounds yet??
>>
>>Nick.

>
>
> My advice is: don't. I set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1 and successfully
> installed Oracle 9.2.0.1 on RH9 (except for an error on oemagent which I
> clicked Ignore.) Went through DBCA to configure the database. It was
> working fine until I applied the 9.2.0.3 patch. After running catpatch.sql
> and utlrp.sql, now PL/SQL is now totally broken. I suspect even if this
> didn't happen, further down the road, I'll run into similar problems also.
> It seems the glibc 2.3.2 used in RH9 has some major incompatibility with
> previous glibc versions. Unless you hack the glibc source code and
> recompile, you have a constant risk of the Oracle server not working quite
> right.
>
> So, save yourself some headache. Why run Oracle 9.2 on RH9 anyways? The
> improvement from RH8 to RH9 is not that much. If Oracle 9.2 is running fine
> on RH8, I'd suggest leaving it alone, unless you're doing this for "fun".
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 27 2003 - 16:36:06 CDT