Archive for November, 2009

libxp.so.6 is missing in installation of BI Publisher

Friday, November 13th, 2009

I ran into this when I tried to install BI Publisher on Linux, I solved it by installing libXp (yum install libXp).

Also, extracting the downloaded tar file with WinRAR is not the way to go. Somehow my jar files ended up as directories which resulted in the following error:
Error loading library: generalQueries
Using tar to untar was the way to go here.

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Installing database 11gR2 on linux

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

I am trying to install database 11gR2 onto a (virtual) Oracle Unbreakable Linux machine (do they still call it that?). Here are the things I ran into:

  • I downloaded 2 different zips, but they need to be extracted into the same folder.
  • Be sure to have configged the yum repository correctly, because you need to install some libraries with it before or during the installation (libaio, unixOCBD, sysstat)
  • Turn off SELinux (or set it to permissive at least)
  • To make the database start automatically, look here (and don’t forget to change /etc/oratab)
  • a .bashrc for user oracle with environment variables is useful!

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