FYI: Installation instructions for Oracle products

Since there are still so many questions about installation:
Please read: http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/
Yes, these are (my) SuSE pages, and of course I'd like you to use SuSE Linux. However, the instructions and the patches and rpm's are generic, and have been proven (at Oracle HQ in Redwood City) to work perfectly well on Redhat. Of course, since Linux is Linux - we all use the same kernels, and the same libraries, distributions are about packaging and services, the Linux system is the same.
Example our Oracle 8i instructions:
The instructions are generic anyway, and the downloadable archive we provide includes
- a patch for Oracle 8i, which includes the 8.1.5.0.2 patch from Oracle
- some additional patches of annoying bugs
- 3 rpm's: JRE 1.1.6v5 (also tested to work on Redhat - of course, see above), tcl75lib (the Agent needs Tcl 75; also works on Redhat, of course), and orarun.rpm, which are SysV startup scripts for automatic Oracle startup /shutdown at system boot/shutdown time. This last package is slightly SuSE specific, and will not work without changing a few lines of the script manually, but that's pretty easy to do.
We also changed 'runInstaller' slightly to catch some of the most common errors that users encounter. We have had lots of very positive feedback from users - and we're waiting for yours. Some of our patches have made it into Oracle patches, and will be in Oracle 8.1.6 right from the start, since we're working closely with Oracle (SuSE was the first Linux distributor to have a full time engineer onsite at Oracle HQ).
Oracle 8i has been certified by Oracle against SuSE Linux 6.2 and 6.3, of course.
Have fun!
PS:
- SuSE Linux only recently won the 'Best Distribution' award at LinuxWorld Expo in New York (February, choosen by the visitors, not an anonymous committee).
- SuSE has more than 300 employees worldwide (12 months ago: ~60)
- SuSE has been in business since 1992, in the Linux business since 1993
- Our investors include Intel, and our bottom line has always been positive
Come and see us at CeBIT (starts 24 February in Hannover, Germany, and is the largest trade show on eart(!) with more than 7500 exhibitors and more than 700000 visitors)!
PS^2:
Feel free to ask me, if you still have installation troubles! We always welcome feedback, so that we can make the installation process even simpler. It will also flow back to Oracle, of course, and will improve the standard Oracle installation procedures (after all, we really don't want to make a living patching Oracle's installation bugs....).
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maybe this will help
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37097_01/doc/install.42/e35123/toc.htm
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/apex-getting-started-1863613.html
regards,
drama9346

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