problem in installing oracle 8i on linux 8

huy friends
i am facing the problem while installing oracle 8i on linux 8.The problem is stated below
WHEN I RUN INSTALLER BY
./RUNINSTA
it give me error of sysman class not found
can any one tell me how to solve it i will be greatfull to you
thanks

Hi talat,

I am also trying to install Oracle on my Linux box (running a fresh version of Mandrake 10) and have encountered problesm with 8i. I chose this version as it is the same as what will be used on the live environment, but I've given up with it and am currently having a go with 9i instead as after reading page after page of install howto's on the web I decided the 8i install was probably just too buggy to try.

For me the error (when running runInstall) was:
symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference (libzip.so)

Good luck with finding a fix - but you may have to move on to a more recent version as I have.

Cheers,

John

I have just succesfully installed Oracle 8i on my laptop using Mandrake 10.0 community.

Set the following parameter in the .bash_profile for the ORACLE user
export LD_ASUMME_KERNEL=2.4.1

Ignore any errors.

change line 156 from the root.sh before you run it.
change last word '{print $1}` to '{print $1}'`

Install glibc-2.1.3-stubs.tar Download it from oracle.

Grtz

p.s be sure that you don't use any NLS parameters in your profile script.

Download java 1.3.1 from sun.

Install it in /opt/

make a logical link ln -s /opt/jre1.3.1_11 /usr/local/java

enter next statement as root

xhost +localhost

add following setting to the profile of your Oracle user,

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0


Grtz