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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Installing Oracle 11gR1 on a Fedora Core 10 64 bit VM
Just a note, to myself more than anything, about what extra packages are required by a 64 bit installation of Fedora Core 10, when trying to install Oracle 11gR1.
The installation I undertook was on a FC10 64 bit VM running under VMWare Server 2.0 running on top of FC10 64 bit OS.
Tim, as usual, has a lovely guide which told me almost everything I needed to know, however the guide says "If you are performing the 64-bit installation, make sure both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries are installed." rather than explicitly stating the packages for a 64 bit install. Until I tried to install Oracle 11gR1, I didn't know what these were. The Oracle installer for 11g soon told me in the pre install checks it does, so I went about installing the following packages, in order:
glibc-2.9-3.i686.rpm
libaio-0.3.107-4.fc10.i386.rpm
libgcc-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.9-3.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-64.x86_64.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-64.i386.rpm
libstdc++-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
That got me past the pre install checks of the Oracle installer and on to a successful install.
I've added the list to the comments on the guide Tim produced as well.
The installation I undertook was on a FC10 64 bit VM running under VMWare Server 2.0 running on top of FC10 64 bit OS.
Tim, as usual, has a lovely guide which told me almost everything I needed to know, however the guide says "If you are performing the 64-bit installation, make sure both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries are installed." rather than explicitly stating the packages for a 64 bit install. Until I tried to install Oracle 11gR1, I didn't know what these were. The Oracle installer for 11g soon told me in the pre install checks it does, so I went about installing the following packages, in order:
glibc-2.9-3.i686.rpm
libaio-0.3.107-4.fc10.i386.rpm
libgcc-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.9-3.i386.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-64.x86_64.rpm
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-64.i386.rpm
libstdc++-4.3.2-7.i386.rpm
That got me past the pre install checks of the Oracle installer and on to a successful install.
I've added the list to the comments on the guide Tim produced as well.
Labels: dba, errors, guides, linux, VMware
Friday, May 22, 2009
Cursor keys not working in Virtual Server 2 VM
Posted as a reminder to myself about how to fix this issue...
I couldn't get some of the cursor keys to work properly on my virtual machines running under VMWare Virtual Server 2 on Fedora 10 x86_64. Kept giving funny behaviour like bringing up the screen capture applet!
A bit of searching the net came up with this one, which although not referring to Virtual Server 2 specifically, seems to work all the same...
Essentially, adding the line below to the following file fixes the problem
File (create it, if not already present):
Line:
My thanks to "The Monkey Jungle"!
I couldn't get some of the cursor keys to work properly on my virtual machines running under VMWare Virtual Server 2 on Fedora 10 x86_64. Kept giving funny behaviour like bringing up the screen capture applet!
A bit of searching the net came up with this one, which although not referring to Virtual Server 2 specifically, seems to work all the same...
Essentially, adding the line below to the following file fixes the problem
File (create it, if not already present):
~/.vmware/config
Line:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
My thanks to "The Monkey Jungle"!
Labels: bugs, linux, virtualisation, VMware