Oracle won't cooperate
I tried to install Oracle 10g on a sid/amd64 machine just now. What a
nightmare. I grabbed the java sdk from blackdown, installed the
ia32-libs packages and a fullblown ia32 chroot as well. Still, Oracle
just refuses to start. Their installer is a 32-bit launcher program
which starts java which tries to call a bunch of native methods. I
installed openmotif (wretch!) in both 64-bit and 32-bit lib trees, but
to no beneficial effect. What a nightmare! Would it kill them to ship
the installer for their 64-bit database in, oh, I dunno, a 64-bit
binary?!?!
The best part is the totally misleading error message:
current locale is not supported in X11
Not! How about "calling 32-bit libs from 64-bit java from 32-bit binary
on 64-bit system not supported"?
Any successful Oracle installs out there?
-jwb
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