Error installing Oracle Client on Red Hat 4.0

Question

This is the error that displays when it's 80 % already installing:
Error in invoking target 'client_sharedlib' of makefile '/u01/app/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk
I have al rpm packages installed, but I don't know what's happening.
Please, Help meeeee!!!!
Thanks...

Answer 1

I have exacrtly the same problem. I am installing "10201_database_linux_x86_64" on Red Hat 3.0. The error I got, though, is more specific:
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INFO: Start output from spawned process:
INFO: ----------------------------------
INFO:
INFO: /app/oracle/10g/bin/genclntsh
INFO: /app/oracle/10g/rdbms/lib/kpudfo.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
INFO: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
INFO: genclntsh: Failed to link libclntsh.so.10.1
INFO: make: *** [client_sharedlib] Error 1
INFO: End output from spawned process.
INFO: ----------------------------------
INFO: Exception thrown from action: make
Exception Name: MakefileException
Exception String: Error in invoking target 'client_sharedlib' of makefile '/app/oracle/10g/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk'. See '/home/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2006-07-20_03-34-31PM.log' for details.
Exception Severity: 1
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I checked the missing library file: libclntsh.so.10.1 it is not in the folder. It seems to me that this file should come with Oracle installation software, and somehow it is not there, so it didn't get copied over to $ORACLE_HOME/lib, which cause this error.
Also, this error seems interesting too:
INFO: /app/oracle/10g/rdbms/lib/kpudfo.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
Please help!
Thanks.
James