I'm trying to install Oracle Developer 10G on a SuSE 9.1 platform. I get an error in the install, did an strace on it, turns out Oracle fopens /proc/meminfo, and since the format of /proc/meminfo has changed, dies.

Any way to fix the format of /proc/meminfo or to "spoof" it for Oracle? Any workaround to this problem would be helpful, beside installing a different OS.

Use a response file. It skips any sanity checks Oracle has setup in the installer. If you're good at customizing a response file, you can refine it. I just installed everything and removed what I didn't want, after.

Hopefully someone else will find this useful.

Hello,
got also some problems with installing Developer Suite 10g on Suse 9.1
First there seem to be missinng a lot of packages, e.g. gcc-3-2-3 ... although I've already installed gcc-3-3.3 ....
Then e.g a setarch package is missing and I cant find it anywhere

Second, if I continue the setup process (although some packages are missing)
the installer stops with the message:
/tmp/OraInstall2004-........err
/tmp/OraInstall...........out

saying that an internal error appeared and the programm wa not ended ordinarily
There is no database installed nor other oracle software products on this machine.

Please help

Can you e-mail me those log files? thatsnotright AT gmail.com

The setarch package can be found here: http://rpmfind.rediris.es/linux/rpm2...&system=&arch=

Or any RPMfind site.

The installer is Java based, but it comes with its own VM, so if you have one in the path try removing it temporarily.