On 23 Jul 2001, Guy Geens wrote: > Did you read the Oracle8-HOWTO? It gives a few hints. > > IIRC, most common problems seem to be an incorrect libc version, or > the wrong JDK (HOWTO mentions the version Oracle wants). > > I tried installing Oracle 8 on my home machine once. After selecting the > options, the installation started and gave me an error after a couple > of hours of grinding disks. Probably removed some component it needed. > > After that, I figured I didn't really want Oracle on my machine.
Actually I did, once. I had to compile a libc5 for it if I remember properly. Jeff