[ale] Oracle on Linux

[Howard Fore]

There's a great how-to for installing Oracle on Linux at 
http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle.

For the official Oracle patch for the glibc discrepancy, look on the 
same Technet (http://technet.oracle.com) page where you download Oracle. 
Basically, you install Oracle but don't let the installer create the 
database. Then you run a script that changes the install. Then you run 
dbassist to create the database.

The only other gotcha is sometimes you'll get a segfault when trying to 
start the installer (runInstaller). This has something to do with the 
IBM JDK 1.1.8 that Oracle bundles for the installation. SuSE recommends 
the command "unset LANG" before running the installer as a workaround. 
Worked for me...


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