November 21, 2004: db 10g companion installation on linux suse 9.2

After the successfull installation of the database I started the next day with the installation of the compaonion CD. This contains two installations:


  1. Addons to the database installation

  2. The Apache webserver and HTMLDB

The first installs without any problems whatsoever in the same Oracle Home as the database.
The second gets its own Oracle home so I only set the environment variable ORACLE_BASE. Installation went until a linking error showed up:
Exception String: Error in invoking target 'install' of makefile '/apps/oracle/product/10.1.0/c_1/sqlplus/lib/ins_sqlplus.mk'.
Ough. I remembered from installing 9i on suse 8 some linking problems and a fix in genclntsh but that didn't help. Also information on the internet (same error, different platforms, different products) were not encouraging and tiresome. I decided to continue and see what happened.
Fortunately, the installation finished without any hick-ups and it seems that the Apache is running and HTMLDB is available. I consider this a narrow escape ;-).
Posted by Aino at 00:51