Re: tlug: About Oracle on Linux

[Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@example.com>]

Hi all,Thanks to Chris, I have got the Oracle8 running on Slackware3.5.
It seems to be working fine but I still have to do some more testing.
Thanks all for the help.

Venkatesh Raghavan
Osaka City University

> Chris Sekiya wrote:
>
>> The tarfile is glibc-2.0.7.tar.gz, and it is in /incoming.
>>
>> Untar this file into a working directory.  Copy ld-linux.so.2 (which is
>> actually a symlink to ld-2.0.7.so) into /lib.  Add the path to this
>> working directory to /etc/ld.so.conf.  Run /sbin/ldconfig.
>>
>> Things should now work.
>


>> > Scott Stone wrote:
>
> >
> > In that case would it be an easier solution to have a glibc-based Linux
> > distribution before installing Oracle8.
>
> that is the *ONLY* solution.  TurboLinux, RedHat, Debian, and SuSE are all
> glibc-based.  I think that Slackware is the only major distribution that
> is not glibc-based.



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