Oracle Database Installation on SuSE Linux 5.3

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 5.3
This article refers to an older version of SuSE Linux. Therefore some of the informations given in this article may be outdated or the article may contain stale links.

ORACLE: Version 8.0.5

Request:

To install Oracle 8.0.5 under SuSE Linux 5.3 from the CD "Oracle for Linux"

Procedure

The user for whose benefit the Oracle database is being installed has to belong to the "dba" group. Since Oracle is based on glibc, and SuSE Linux 5.3 is still based on libc5, you should use the RPM opatch.rpm .