Oracle 10.2 installation URGENT!

[alfotis]

Hi all,

After a LOT of Googling around installing Oracle database 10.2 on Ubuntu I resulted to NOTHING!

The installer keeps saying things about my distro (not being Fedora, SuSE etc) and I don't know what to do!!

I need Oracle database on my server and I don't want to switch to any other distro

Please help!!!

Thanx,
Fotis

This should be my problem, but resolved it by adding a file redhat-release in my /etc directory that contains "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon) and now I can FINALLY run the installer

[evilghost]

Sounds like the Oracle installer is absolute garbage.

[bsussman]

Gee - I hope Oracle doesn't depend on some package, feature, parameter that is not present in ubuntu...

[murkin]

This should be my problem, but resolved it by adding a file redhat-release in my /etc directory that contains "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon) and now I can FINALLY run the installer

Fotis,
Would you be able to tell me where you found this file? I don't understand what it is you did. You added a file named "redhat-release" to the /etc directory. (Was this a text file?) Within this file you typed the words "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)".

Thanks for your help!

[ape]

Try the information from this location (http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Oracle_10g.shtml)

[munitras]

try running the installer as follows


./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs

Oracle have not certified 10.2 to run on Ubuntu as such you will need to bypass pre-requirements checking as described above.