Why can't install Oracle 8.1.7 in Redhat 7,1

Question

Please see this page first: http://linuxfab.cx/indexEasy.php
if you really want to install, please run these files first:
compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2.i386.rpm
compat-egcs-c++-6.2-1.1.2.9.i386.rpm
compat-libs-6.2-3.i386.rpm
compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.14.i386.rpm
and try again.

Answer 1

Here's the easy way to do it.
1. Install EVERYTHING into your drive from Redhat 7.1; that's right choose 'EVERYTHING' when prompted at the 7.1 install.
(You need about 2GB to fit the 7.1 install plus the additional 2GB for oracle)
(Make a user named 'oracle' who will load and administer the database)
2. Type the following at the root command prompt:
groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper
useradd oracle -g oinstall -G dba,oper
passwd oracle (it will prompt you for the password)
3. (Now let's make the directories and assign ownership starting from the root directory)
cd /
mkdir oraclestage
mkdir orahome
mkdir ora1
mkdir ora2
mkdir ora3
(the ora1,2,...etc should be mount points on different physical disks, but just make directories if you only have one disk)
4. (Now assign ownership to the directories)
chown oracle.dba /oraclestage
chmod 775 /oraclestage
chown oracle.dba /orahome
chmod 775 /orahome
chown oracle.dba /ora1
chmod 775 /ora1
chown oracle.dba /ora2
chmod 775 /ora2
chown oracle.dba /ora3
chmod 775 /ora3
(Next log out as root and log in as oracle using the password you assigned)
5. (Now set up environmental variables IF YOU SCREW THIS UP IT WONT WORK!!!SO PAY ATTENTION)
(Go into the place where user oracle's environment variables are kept...)
cd /home/oracle
more .bash_profile
(look at your .bash_profile file. You're going to replace it with the one below...
the easiest way to do this is to copy the contents of this file into Linux and save it as 'myfile', then place it in the /home/oracle directory. Then type:
cp myfile .bash_profile
at the command prompt. Say yes if asked to replace file)
Here's the file contents:
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
#PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
#BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
#export BASH_ENV PATH
#unset USERNAME
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
./usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh
ORACLE_BASE=/orahome; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=/orahome; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=ORCL; export ORACLE_SID
PATH=$PATH:/orahome/bin; export PATH
CLASSPATH=:/orahome/jdbc/lib/classes111.zip; export CLASSPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/orahome/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
umask 022
ORA_NLS33=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/ocommon/nls/admin/data; export ORA_NLS33
NLS_LANG=american; export NLS_LANG
5.1(notice the following lines:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
./usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh
These are designed to make oracle compatible with LINUX. The ./usr/i386...etc. is a script that has to fire off to make oracle 817 run off a backward version of the glibc library. If this script fails when logging into the box as user oracle, then run it from the command line after you get into the box. You may have to run it from root, but fire it off.
6. Get your oracle817 tar file and copy it to the 'oraclestage' folder. Log in as root and untar it to expand it. The command is:
tar xvf linux*...etc (whatever...)
7. Next get the jdk118_v3 file from http://java.sun.com and put that on in your user/local directory. As the root user, untar it and make a symbolic link as follows:
ln -s /usr/local/jdk118_v3 /usr/local/java)
8. Go back to the /oraclestage as user 'oracle' and do a 'cd Disk1' at the command prompt and then do a './runInstaller' from the prompt. Keep in mind that you have to be in xwindows for the latter to work. Put oracle into the 'orahome' directory. You don't need all the obnoxious 12-mile-long path statements, just put the thing into orahome.
That will get oracle817 going on your Redhat 7.1 box. It works for me. You don't have to deal with all that 'compat-glibc' loading shit. Just do an 'everything' install and it will work. Beside, what if you want to start using the box as a Linux box also? Do you want to keep searching for *.rpm files when you need extra functionality? Just throw them all in when you install.
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