Bucolic Labyrinth

 Download the Oracle 10g database from the Oracle website. Graphical environment should be installed correctly in the server before installing oracle. Open a terminal command line and Untar the zip file and go to the folder 'database'. From there type the below given command as a user other than root. Better create a user named 'oracle'. ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs If you find any error as shown below, ---------- Initializing Java Virtual Machine from /tmp/OraInstall2008-08-25_11-53-58AM/jre/bin/java. Please wait... Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2008-08-25_11-53-58AM/jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  --------- Then install libXp as shown below, yum install libXp And then give the command 'runinstaller' . The software will then open a graphical interface and will check for the system requirements. If it shows some errors in th

The default RPMforge repository does not replace any CentOS base packages. In the past it used to, but those packages are now in a separate repository (rpmforge-extras) which is disabled by default. You can find a complete listing of the RPMforge package packages at http://packages.sw.be/ Download the rpmforge-release package. Choose one of the two links below, selecting to match your host's architecture. If you are unsure of which one to use you can check your architecture with the command uname -i i386 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm x86_64 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm The preferred rpmforge-release package to retrieve and to install in order to enable that repository is one of the two listed above. Install DAG's GPG key rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt Verify the package you have downloaded rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.*.rpm Securi