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Installing OBIEE 11.1.1.3.0 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5

I took some notes and screenshots whilst I installed Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.3.0 in an 11gR2 database running on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5…they are on the wiki section here. The installation was on a Virtual Machine running in VMWare Workstation 7.1. Comments and corrections welcome.

nmon for linux (Fedora 12, x86_64)

At my current client site, I use AIX on IBM PowerPC kit. There is a neat little systems monitoring tool called “nmon” on AIX, which I quite like. I noticed recently that it’s available on Linux now, so I installed it on my machine, which runs Fedora 12. There are a number of binaries prebuilt, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]