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By: Toby Heywood » Blog Archive » Oracle and Fedora 8 sat in a tree…

Toby Heywood » Blog Archive » Oracle and Fedora 8 sat in a tree… — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:05:10 +0000

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By: Manni

Manni — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:39:42 +0000

You could try ./runInstaller -jreLoc /usr/lib/jvm/jre after implementing groups and users.

I think it is much easier if this command work

By: keepercl

keepercl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:51:43 +0000

There is other solution: beside all required by Oracle Installer packages you should also install package named libXp and start installer normally (without any arguments).
It worked for fedora 8 and both Oracle 10gR2 and 11g on my machines.

(Sorry, I don’t remember the source of this solution - it’s not mine)

Regards

By: Alan Plummer

Alan Plummer — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:45:18 +0000

Oh and P.S:

After Oracle has installed you need to sed the libmawt.so file here too:

cd /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt

Also, above, the last line should read

runInstaller -jreLoc /tmp/jre/jdk/jre

By: Alan Plummer

Alan Plummer — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:16:26 +0000

I found it slightly different. After renaming to jre go here:

cd /tmp/jre/jdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt

then

sed -i ’s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g’ libmawt.so

then

runInstaller -jerLoc /tmp/jre/jdk/jre

That worked for me and Oracle 11.1.0.6 is running sweet on Fedora 8