Having trouble installing Oracle onto Linux?

Question

If you are having difficulties making sense of the lame docs that
Oracle has provided for installing Oracle 8 onto Linux, please
visit this website:
<a
href="http://amoeba.sagemediagroup.com/oracle_linux_howto/">http:
//amoeba.sagemediagroup.com/oracle_linux_howto/</a>
After much hacking and frustration, I managed to get my install
working correctly and decided to detail step-by-step what I did
to get it there. I hope this helps!
-Reuben
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Answer 1

I just wanted to chime in here and say that I experienced exactly
the same problems as Fred, whilst trying to install 8.0.5 onto
Mandrake Linux 6.
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Fintan
Fred (guest) wrote:
: Reuben King (guest) wrote:
: : If you are having difficulties making sense of the lame docs
: that
: : Oracle has provided for installing Oracle 8 onto Linux,
please
: : visit this website:
: : <a
href="http://amoeba.sagemediagroup.com/oracle_linux_howto/">http:
: : //amoeba.sagemediagroup.com/oracle_linux_howto/</a>
: : After much hacking and frustration, I managed to get my
: install
: : working correctly and decided to detail step-by-step what I
: did
: : to get it there. I hope this helps!
: : -Reuben
: I try every step just as the document told but when you come to
: the step applying the patch, you will find out that one of the
: library (I think it is the C library) being mentioned in the
: patch is missing. I try to look up this library in RedHat's
: download area, they don't have it. Instead a similar C++
library
: is there. Of course I cannot sure that is the one I'm looking
: for. After I apply the patch, many of the executiables such as
: svrmgrl, lsnrctl, etc are not functioning. I find out that many
: executables are not linked and have an "0" at the end of each
: executable. I use RedHat 6.0 and Oracle 8.0.5 Enterprise
: Edition. Finally, I had to fall back to RedHat 5.2 and the
: installation is smooth as it goes. Hope someone can give me
: some Hints on this matter.
: Fred
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