Posted by Brad Hudson on Oct 29, 2009
Good morning folks and welcome to chapter 3 in the ongoing saga of TOra and Oracle support for Ubuntu. In this edition we’re faced with a new Ubuntu, new TOra 2.0, and new and exciting adventures, all of which I have stripped out so you can get this up and running quickly.
All in all, the build process turned out to be simpler than it had on previous versions all thanks to a much smarter build system. The scripts that debian-ize the packages are much more robust and also much more complex at first glance. There was no configure line to change in this one, it’s smart enough to pick up all the elements you need provided they are where the build expects them to be. One such item is the Oracle include path, which I will say more about shortly. Enough snappy patter, let’s get on with . . .
Installing TOra with Oracle support on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Brad Hudson on Oct 9, 2009
I just installed a copy of the titular distro last night and have been playing with it a bit. So far it’s been less trouble than I would have expected from a first beta, and runs well. Get Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta 1 here. A word to the wise, this is beta software and not yet ready for prime time.
I installed it on my laptop, I use it for a lot of things but the data is always expendable. I had installed it in a VM a few days previously but that was not as satisfying as trying it in the real world as opposed to the idealized world of the VM.
Test Specs
- Compaq EVO n610c
- Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 – M CPU 2.40GHz
- TEAC DW-224E-A 24x/24x writer cd/rw
- Fujitsu MHT2040A 5400RPM drive
- 512MB DDR
- D-Link DWL-G630 802.11g Atheros AR2413
- ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
The Install
From the get-go there was trouble. Read the rest of this entry . . .
