Installing Oracle 8i on Linux 7.2 1

[jpmitchell]

I recently upgraded from RedHat 6.2 to 7.2 the Oracle installation on 6.2 was flawless. But 7.2 is not in agreement. Redhat 7.2 ships with glibc 2.2.4-13 and I need glibc-2.1.3-2.
I have tried replacing the 2.2.4 package via (rpm -i glibc-2.1.3-2.src.rpm) to no avail. Does anyone have a fix or workaround?

Thanks,
JPM

 

[bgarlock]

Have you tried the compat-libs on RH 7.2?

compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.16
compat-egcs-g77-6.2-1.1.2.16
compat-egcs-6.2-1.1.2.16
compat-egcs-c++-6.2-1.1.2.16
compat-libs-6.2-3
compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
compat-egcs-objc-6.2-1.1.2.16
Bruce Garlock
bruceg@tiac.net

http://bruceg.dyndns.org

 

[jpmitchell]

How do set the path so that Oracle read the compat files? compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 is installed but how do I route the installer to this glibc?

 

[bgarlock]

Hmm, they should be there then. Give this link a try, it applies to Oracle 8, and RH 7.1, but it does speak of the compat packages, so it may steer you in the right direction.

http://www.orafaq.com/msgboard/unix/messages/445.htm

Bruce Garlock
bruceg@tiac.net

http://bruceg.dyndns.org

 

[bgarlock]

This link is even better, it has instructions for 8i on RH 7.2:

http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/index.html

Bruce Garlock
bruceg@tiac.net

http://bruceg.dyndns.org

 

[jxfish2]

Switch to SuSE... It's the only Linux variant certified to work with Oracle, certified by Oracle, since Oracle develops all of it's Linux code on SuSE servers...

( I absolutely hate RedHat... I've used RedHat 6.0, 6.2, 7.1 and 7.2 at home, and I'm fed up with them all... NO MORE! )

I've been running SuSE and RedHat side-by-side for several years now, only because so many people use RedHat... (For the life of me, I can't figure out why...) SuSE is SO much better...