Can't install d2k6ir2 products on Linux

Question

This download includes about 17 different products. I'm trying to install only Forms Server/Developer, Unix Installer and PL/SQL Procedure Builder at this time. I've studied the included documentation, set every environment variable there is and tried running ./orainst both with and without the create DB objects options. But the installation process never completes. What it does do is cause a Segmentation Fault. My RH 7.0 Linux OS stops it at this point and greets me with a core dump. This always appears to take place while "Loading ORACLE Common Utilities Executables..."
Come on -- I know there's somebody out there that has installed these products on Linux.

Answer 1

It's probably not supported on RHEL5/Centos5/etc., but...
You can get the installer to function using the following steps:
- extract the cal_linux_*.tar.gz, and cd into the OracleCalendar_inst directory
In there is the actual installer, cal_linux.
- the cal_linux is shell script wrapped around some binary blobs. The installer's
problem is that Oracle is setting the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 environment
variable, which is a mistake on RHEL5. You need to make it not set that variable,
but you need to do so in a way that the size of the shell script does not change at all,
and none of the binary blobs are impacted.
- the approach I took was
mv cal_linux cal_linux.BAK
sed -e 's/LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5/LD_ASSUME_KERNEL= /g' < cal_linux.BAK > cal_linux
chmod a+rx cal_linux
cal_linux -i gui
Note: you must have exactly 5 spaces in the substitution part of the sed command, because you're replacing 5 characters (2.2.5), and the size of the shell script must not change.
If you do that, the installer should run (one warning from awk still) and you should be able to install the product.
Tim