Oracle 8.1.7 on Fedora Core 2 aka tettnang
Is it possible to install this release of Oracle on FC2? (9i or later isn't possible)
This is not for a Production Server, but for some quick testing.
I realize there is an issue with glibc:
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Patch Description
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Oracle8i for Linux is shipped with archived objects which were compiled using
glibc-2.1.3. The executable components are then linked at install-time using
these archives. Due to compatibility limitations in glibc, if the target
system for an installation is based on a later version of glibc, then the
executables produced by the linker will not be valid. As a workaround to
this limitation, we have created a set of stub libraries which are used at
link-time only to mimic the contents of glibc-2.1.3 shared objects. Note
that these stub libraries do not contain valid executable code, and therefore
*must NOT* be included in the library path searched by the dynamic loader
(i.e., do not include $ORACLE_HOME/lib/stubs in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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Should I instead go back to say RedHat 9?
I can not obtain RHES or it's siblings for this test.
Thank you!
Ken Rice
TLC