Prob in starting up Oracle

Question

I have Red Hat Linux 5.1 installed on a 133MHz 32MB RAM 1.2G
Harddisk Pentium PC. It runs perfectly.
I tried to load Oracle8 on to it. After following all the
instructions, I even got to the point of "Req productss have been
successfully installed" and the "Result : Success" message at the
very end.
But when i go to $ORACLE_HOME/bin and attempt to run sqlplus (
in the hope of connecting as sys/sys and running catrep.sql ), it
says - i quote:
sqlplus : error in loading shared libraries
libclntsh.so.1.0 : cannot open shared object file. No such file
or directory
what could be wrong?? Please let me know soon - this is my 5th
unsuccessful attempt!!
Thanks
Raghu
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Answer 1

When you go on as another user.. (i.e. 'su oracle'). Make sure
that you run the .bash_profile of that user (i.e. 'source
/home/oracle/.bash_profile') this will change all the env
settings. This worked for me with your problem. (I was
switching from root to oracle)
Michael
Raghu Srinivasan (guest) wrote:
: I have Red Hat Linux 5.1 installed on a 133MHz 32MB RAM 1.2G
: Harddisk Pentium PC. It runs perfectly.
: I tried to load Oracle8 on to it. After following all the
: instructions, I even got to the point of "Req productss have
been
: successfully installed" and the "Result : Success" message at
the
: very end.
: But when i go to $ORACLE_HOME/bin and attempt to run sqlplus (
: in the hope of connecting as sys/sys and running catrep.sql ),
it
: says - i quote:
: sqlplus : error in loading shared libraries
: libclntsh.so.1.0 : cannot open shared object file. No such file
: or directory
: what could be wrong?? Please let me know soon - this is my 5th
: unsuccessful attempt!!
: Thanks
: Raghu
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