<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Run Installer</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Install GCC 2.9 Compat libraries" HREF="sect_06.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Create a Startup Script" HREF="sect_08.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_06.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_08.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="sect_07" ></A >7. Run Installer</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_07_01" ></A >7.1. Apply the libwait.c patch</H2 ><P >Before running the installer, do the following in order to overcome some weird errors:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >In <TT CLASS="filename" >/home/oracle</TT >,create a file name <TT CLASS="filename" >libwait.c</TT > and as described below and compile it :</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Ceate a file called libcwait.c in the oracle user's home directory to avoid getting an error when running the Oracle installer. The libcwait.c file should contain the following text: /* gcc -O2 -shared -o $HOME/libcwait.so -fpic $HOME/libcwait.c */ #include #include #include Deploying Oracle 9i on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Page 11 #include pid_t __libc_wait (int *status) { int res; asm volatile ("pushl %%ebx\n\t" "movl %2, %%ebx\n\t" "movl %1, %%eax\n\t" "int $0x80\n\t" "popl %%ebx" : "=a" (res) : "i" (__NR_wait4), "0" (WAIT_ANY), "c" (status), "d" (0), "S" (0)); return res; } Next, compile this file in the oracle user's home directory by executing the following command: gcc -02 -shared -o $HOME/libcwait.so -fpic $HOME/libwait.c </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ><B CLASS="command" >gcc <TT CLASS="option" >-shared -o</TT > <TT CLASS="filename" >libcwait.so libcwait.c</TT > <TT CLASS="option" >-fpic -O</TT ></B > </P ></LI ><LI ><P >Then add this library to the environment of the database user:</P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >export <TT CLASS="varname" >LD_PRELOAD</TT >=<TT CLASS="filename" >/home/oracle/libcwait.so</TT ></B > </P ><P >Earlier, we put a similar line in <TT CLASS="filename" >.bash_profile</TT >.</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_07_02" ></A >7.2. Configure the Display</H2 ><P >Execute the following commands as oracle User :</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > oracle@9iserver ~> xhost +localhost oracle@9iserver ~> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >You can now connect to your desktop or optionally run the installation remotely, for instance using <SPAN CLASS="application" >VNC</SPAN >.for instance running the installer from your Windows desktop </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_07_03" ></A >7.3. Start the Installation</H2 ><P >Start the graphical installation application:</P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >/path/to/oracle/Disk1/runInstaller</B > </P ><P >Now carry with Graphical setup (if you are not sure choose Standard database). From here the rest of the installation process is obvious.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_07_04" ></A >7.4. Fix nodeinfo</H2 ><P >Now installation should proceed without any linking errors but you will get one error in the end:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > Parameter "nodeinfo" = NO_VALUE Agent Service Failed </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >In order to fix this, run the following for starting the wizard after setup has finished:</P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >netca &</B > </P ><P >Now change into <TT CLASS="varname" >$ORACLE_HOME</TT > and run <B CLASS="command" >./lsnrctl <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >start</I ></TT ></B >.</P ><P >Check that the process is running:</P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >ps <TT CLASS="option" >afx</TT > | grep <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >LISTEN</I ></TT ></B > </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sect_06.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sect_08.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Install GCC 2.9 Compat libraries</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Create a Startup Script</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >