Author: James Courtier-Dutton Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Compatibilty issues installing 64 bit Oracle onto
64-bit Ubuntu
2009/4/4 Victor Churchill <victorchurchill@???>: > Hi, this is a freshly downloaded x86_64 installation of Ubuntu Server 8.04LTS.
> qg@pe2950:~$ uname -a
> Linux pe2950 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:36:05 UTC 2009
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Running on a Dell pe2950 (imaginative host naming, huh?)
>
> I've downloaded Oracle's 64 bit release 10gR2 : the download filename
> was 10201_database_linux_x86_64.cpio.gz.
> However, Oracle only certify this for Red Hat and Suse, not Debian or Ubuntu.
>
> By following the usual link-from-a-link-from-a-forum process I have
> got a good way into the install and am now encountering an error which
> seems related to a 32/64 bit lib compatibility issue.
>
Apart from my pet hate that the oracle install needs a GUI.
If you are paying god know how much for the oracle license, won't a
switch to using Suse be relatively minor?
Again, only oracle could need 32bit libs for a supposed 64 version of oracle!
