Oracle on Linux Resources

General

Oracle On Linux (Oracle Technet)
Oracle8i, Oracle9i

Installation and Configuration

At this moment (06/2001), there are only few descriptions that talk about installing Oracle8i on RedHat 7.1. As described on the Technet download pages, you'll need to apply the "glibc-2.1.3-stubs"-patch. (Oracle8i 8.1.7 requires glibc-2.1.3 and RedHat 7.x comes with glibc-2.2). But apart from this the readme file is rather brief. These additional guidelines may help you:

1. In ./runInstaller choose 'Minimal Install'
2. De-select the creation of a starters database
3. The installer will encounter numerous link errors. Ignore them.
4. When the installer finishes, install the patch as described in the readme file that comes with the patch.
5. You can create an initial database using $ORACLE_HOME/dbassist (exeute as oracle).
6. The option to copy the 'prepared database files' from the stage area did not work for me (I guess it RedHat 7.1 related... the block size did not match)
7. Instead you can accept all the defaults in the manual creation
8. If you want to connect to your newly created database, do not forget to set the environment to the name you've just choosen... execute ". ./oraenv".

Note that the only Linux distro to be certified for Oracle9i is SuSE 7.1. (06/2001)

Installing and Configuring Oracle on the Linux Platform. (Roger Schrag, Database Specialists)
Oracle8i 8.1.7 & 8.1.6, Red Hat 6.2

Installing Oracle8i on RedHat 6.0. (Jesus M. Salvo Jr)
Oracle8i 8.1.5, Red Hat 6.0

FAQ on Oracle8i Release 2 on RedHat 6.0. (Jesus M. Salvo Jr)
Oracle8i 8.1.6, Red Hat 6.0

www.oralinux.org (Mark Wagner)

Oracle at SuSE
Oracle8i, Oracle9i, all SuSE releases

Oracle On Linux (Tom Bisset)
Oracle8i 8.1.5 & 8.1.6 & 8.1.7

Oracle On Linux How To (Stephen Darlington, zx81.uk.org)
Oracle8i 8.1.6 & 8.1.7, Oracle9i

Client Software

Kora (Ullrich Wagner)

Orac (Kevin Kitts)

ObjectManager & SQLWork

If you know about other useful Oracle on Linux, I'll be happy to add them!
(mail to: Jan Van Bulck)