Proble with 9i install on Solaris 10

I am running into an issue installing Oracle 9i on Solaris 10. The installer can't access directories just created by the /tmp/orainstroot.sh file, the folder /export/home/oracle/oraInventory. There error message is: The oracle universal installer inventory on thie system does not exist or is not writable The possible causes are:
1. The /tmp/orainstRoot.sh script was not executed with root priveledges, or an error occured during execution
(It was executed as root, and there were no errors)
2.You are not a member of the specified Installer group (the installer group is the primary group for the id "oracle" that i am using to install.
If anyone has encoutered this particular issue and resovled it I'd really appreciate your assistance

You have to run the script with root to set up the proper directories

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We are trying to install the Apache Web Server and the PHP package on a Sun Solaris Sparc machine running on SunOS 5.8. We are having compilation problems with the source code of both these packages.
Does anybody know if there are ready solaris packages for Apache and PHP available from where we can download and install instead of source code compilation?
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You should have Apache installed before trying to install PHP.
If you want to use PHP with MySQL then you must install MySQL first.
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Getting PHP
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su root
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/usr/local/dist
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thanks a lot for your hint, the problem is solved with editing /etc/release.
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the install-script is not very nice.
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