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Re: Oracle8 Installer problem - Linux - Problem Solved

From: Kurt <kurt_at_cnw.com>
Date: 1998/10/11
Message-ID: <908154549.3693@wren.supernews.com>#1/1

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:37:24 GMT, hartleym_at_netcomuk.co.uk wrote:
>orainst is a shell file. You should be able to do a
>#cat orainst
>and read the shell processing. If this file is corrupt, and this file
>is a text file, I would suggest you confirm you decompressed the
>archive correctly.
>
>Have you made the file orainst readable to oracle? Is the file owned
>by root?
>
>Does the directory /cdrom have execute permissions? This is
>essential.
>

It was missing a C library which I downloaded from lpha.gnu.org (glibc-2.0.7.pre6.tar.gz)..

Thanks for the help though.

Kurt

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