[PLUG] Any experience installing Oracle 8.1.7?

[Anthony Schlemmer]

There are some problems with the JRE and glibc you'll have to contend 
with. I've included the SuSE Oracle install URLs below. These 
instructions helped me get Oracle installed last year on my SuSE 7.1 
system. Since I installed Oracle I've upgraded my system to SuSE 7.2 
and now to 8.0 and my Oracle installation still appears functional. 

The JRE issue is noted in the common issues link for Oracle 8:

http://www.suse.com/en/support/oracle/db/81x_common.html

Here's the main Oracle 8.1.7 link from SuSE's website:

http://www.suse.com/en/support/oracle/db/817_71.html

Good Luck,

Tony

On Thursday 16 May 2002 21:34 pm, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
> I'm currently trying to follow the Byzantine instructions for
> installing Oracle 8i on Linux.  I'm using SuSE 7.3 which is
> supposedly pretty well prepped for Oracle install, and the users,
> groups, directories, permissions, and environment variables are
> prepared.
>
> So, I tried to run .runInstaller from the root of the CD, and got...
>
> Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
> .../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/
>bin /jre. Please wait...
> SIGSEGV received at bfffd988 in
> /media/cdrom/stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expand
>ed/ linux/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava.so. Processing terminated.
>
> This is followed by volumes of data that means nothing to me, but
> seems to be Java state info to help with debugging.
>
> Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,

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