Does anyone have try install Oracle 10G R2 in OpenSUSE 10.2 64 bit?

Hello,

I have successfully installed oracle 10.2.0.1 64 bit on open SuSE 10.2 64 bit. Installation is rather simple - you would have installer in graphical mode.

Please download instructions from http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracl...troduction.pdf


1. Get Oracle database and openSuSE 10.2
2. Install openSuSE with C/C++ development - for details see 10gR2_openSUSE102_introduction.pdf.
3. Follow insctructions from 10gR2_openSUSE102_introduction.pdf. Instead of installing orarun.rpm, download orarun-1.9-21.11.x86_64.rpm from
ftp://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/sles-10

4. Unpack orarun-1.9-21.11.x86_64.rpm to temporary directory:

cd /tmp
mkdir orarun
cd orarun
rpm2cpio orarun-1.9-21.11.x86_64.rpm |cpio -i --make-directories

5. Copy extracted files to proper directories (omit /usr/bin directory and its content). Make sure copied files would be accessible by oracle user (ownership and rights).
6. Follow the rest of installation steps - add user oracle etc.

Good luck

That is not correct. View for details:-
http://blog.metzovi.net/tomm/?p=5

Oracle installer needs 32 bit runtime - without it, it won't run. That's a common issue, I just thought Novell mentioned in their instructions that you need to install 32 runtime libraries. Oracle DB itself uses 64 bit libraries, but installer don't.

Only thing you have to do is to check 32 bit runtime libraries as included option during installation of SuSE.

I believe, I've got your point.
Thank you very much.

Instead of doing:
you can also install the 64-bit version of orarun using 'rpm -i --ignorearch --excludepath=/usr/bin orarun-1.9-21.11.x86_64.rpm' (see the README file in the download directory on Novell's site for the '--ignorearch' bit, and the man-page of rpm for the '--excludepath'-bit).

The advantage of this approach: the oracle user and oinstall/dba groups get created (which doesn't work if you use the cpio method).

hi,
I found this note which i'm trying to follow...

What are the proper directories as written on "mar_456" post?
Do i have to create symbolic links to somewhere (as i read in someother
note)? and i do - how do i do it?
thanks
shlomi.

Just run under /tmp :-
rpm2cpio orarun-1.9-21.11.x86_64.rpm |cpio -i --make-directories
You will understand what mar_456 means when look at
/tmp/usr/local/bin for example

Thanks, but
I noticed the folders created under tmp...
I didn't understand what he mean by "copy extracted files to proper directories"?
should I copy files under /tmp/orainst/etc/unit.d to /etc/unit.d ?
Or should I create a new folder, copy all under /tmp/orainst to this new place and make symbolic links ?

This way :-
/tmp/orainst/etc/unit.d to /etc/unit.d

so i guess if i'm coping them to the place, no symbolic links are necessary, right?

Right.

Hi
Can someone help me understand what Im doing wrong
I set the display as in the by the instruction and when I ran the runinstall got an error MSG of cannot set display.
I tried that working with vnc on the machine.
Thanks