How To install Oracle 8.0.5. on S.u.S.E. 5.3

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Oracle 8.0.5. Installation on S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3
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After strugling for 3 weekends with the installation of Oracle
8.0.5. on a
S.u.S.E. 5.3 distribution here are the installation steps that
worked for me.
1.
Login as root
2.
Use:
cat 805ship.* | tar -zx for extracting the compressed files.
(Use a Linux partition as target, not a FAT !)
3.
Modify the Linux Kernel parameters and rebuild the Linux kernel.
In: /usr/src/linux/include/asm/shmparam.h set the parameters as
listed below:
SHMMAX 0Xffffffff
SHMMIN 1
SHMMNI 100
SHMSEG 10
In: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sem.h
SEMMNS 200
SEMMNI 70
SEMMSL 32
4.
Install the glibc patch. This file opatch.rpm is available on
www.suse.de. (see:
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/fehr_oracle_1.html)
(S.u.S.E. 5.3 is based on libc5 but Oracle needs glibc)
rpm -U --force opatch.rpm
5.
Create the mounting points for the installation. I used the
structure as
listed below (use mkdir for creating and cd for changing
directories)
/usr/oracle/u01
/usr/oracle/u02
/usr/oracle/u03
/usr/oracle/u04
6.
Use yast for creating the Linux user "oracle" and the group
"dba". Make the
user "oracle" a member of the group "dba".
7.
Create the local bin directory:
/usr/local/bin
8.
Install the bash1. This file bash1.rpm is available on
www.suse.de.
(see: http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/fehr_oracle_1.html)
(bash2 is the default shell for S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 but for
executing the
oratab file we need bash1) rpm -U bash1.rpm
export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle
/bin/bash1 /cdrom/orainst/oratab.sh
9.
Set the environment variables for the oracle user in the
.profile file of the
oracle user.
# .profile is read for all login shells
# all other interactive shells will read .bashrc
# So read .bashrc also from .profile and make all changes to
.bashrc.
# Then you should always have your correct setup.
test -z "$PROFILEREAD" && . /etc/profile
if test -f ~/.bashrc; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# some people don't like fortune. If you have humor, please
enable it by
# uncommenting the following lines.
#if [ -x /usr/bin/fortune ] ; then
# echo
# /usr/bin/fortune
# echo
#fi
ORACLE_BASE=/usr/oracle/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/8.0.5.
ORACLE_SID=ORAL
ORACLE_TERM=vt100
ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data
TMPDIR=/var/tmp
ULIMIT=2113674
CLASSPATH=/usr/local/jdk1.1.6/lib/classes.zip:
$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes111.zip
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib
GCC_EXEC_PREFIX=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux-libc6/
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID ORACLE_TERM
export ORA_NLS33 TMPDIR ULIMIT CLASSPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
GCC_EXEC_PREFIX
ORAENV_ASK=NO
. /usr/local/bin/oraenv
10.
Login as oracle.
11.
Type the command
gcc -v
You should receive the following output:
oracle@Linux:/cdrom/orainst > gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux-libc6/i486-
linux/2.7.2.1/sp
gcc version 2.7.2.1
12.
Start the oracle installer.
cd /cdrom/orainst
./orainst
13.
After the installation, login as root and execute:
sh ./root.sh
in the /usr/oracle/u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5./orainst
directory.
14.
Usr svrmgrl to start the server manager. If you get the error:
"libclntsh.so.1.0 : cannot open shared object file: No such file"
then the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is missing.
HTH,
Thomas
References:
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ix/ix_listings/
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/fehr_oracle_1.html
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb/oracle8_suse.html
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Answer 1

Thomas Drolshagen (guest) wrote:
: Oracle 8.0.5. Installation on S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3
: =================================================
: After strugling for 3 weekends with the installation of Oracle
: 8.0.5. on a
: S.u.S.E. 5.3 distribution here are the installation steps that
: worked for me.
I have tried to install Oracle on SuSE 5.2. I almost complted the
installation, but kept getting a failure on installing the
database. The last entry in the install.log is:
Leaving trace.ins- Entering Make Dependent section.
- Entering do_relink==false section.
- Leaving Make dependent section.
- Entering database actions section.
Deciding to start again from scratch, I tried deleting all files
and begining again, but now I get a different error running
orainst. The installer keeps responding that 'file x already
exists'. The name of the file changes each time I run it, and no
file of that name exists. I have tried deleting the temp
directories, as well as dropping them and recreating them
elsewhere (desperation!), but I canot stop this from happening:
An operating system error occurred while trying to spawn
'/orasys/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/otrccref' while
redirecting
output to '^ @^'. (File exists.) Would you like to retry
the
operation, ignore the error, or allow the error to be
processed by
the Installer?
Does anyone have any ideas??
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