The Goldfish Chronicles

Well, Oracle 10g fails to satisfy me too:

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hen@rhino:~/downloads/oracle/Disk1> ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer…

Checking installer requirements…

Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1, UnitedLinux-1.0 or redhat-3
Failed
Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at /tmp/OraInstall2004-03-14_01-21-42PM/installActions2004-03-14_01-21-42PM.log
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Nice of them. To only run on the expensive ‘enterprise’ aka pathetic versions of Linux. I’m guessing that even if the installer were to attempt to run, it would have the same kind of problems that installing 9i on redhat-ES-whatever has. With glibc’s, binutils and various other things needing special Oracle patches.

It’s amazing Oracle don’t ship their own Linux “Oracle works only on this Linux”.

It’s hard to decide which of Oracle or MS leave me more irate.

[I’m using SuSE Pro 8.2 by the way]

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