[WBEL-users] White Box Enterprise Linux 4

Terry trryhend at gmail.com
Sat May 7 22:17:33 CDT 2005


On 5/7/05, Kirby C. Bohling <kbohling at birddog.com> wrote:
> [Nix'ed the CC: to -announce and -devel]
> 
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:04:12PM -0500, John Morris wrote:
> 
> >    * tora isn't built from the unmodified srpm. A tweak was made to the
> > first line of the .spec to produce a tora-oracle package. Oracle 10g was
> > also installed prior to this. A side rant: installation of the Oracle
> > client is much harder than it needs to be (anyone at Oracle heard of
> > RPM?) and the download can't be accomplished with WBEL3's current
> > Mozilla. IE was required by way of CrossOver Office.
> 
> Yes, Oracle has in fact heard of RPM's.  I just wish they'd release
> an 8i and 9i version of them.
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html
> 
> You can google for RPM Oracle Client, and find this as the first or
> second link.  I always find it handy to know which information is
> easily googlable, then I can forget the details and remember the
> keywords.
> 
> As far as downloading the Oracle client with the current Mozilla,
> I'm shocked.  I've downloaded lots of stuff with Mozilla from
> Oracle's site (8i, 9i, 9iAS, and the AS10g disks have all been
> downloaded recently with WBEL).
> 
>     What is really, really irritating, is that Mozilla won't put the
> damn downloads where you tell it (I've had innumerable downloads
> fail because of this, it's an assine situation.  It's my
> understanding, the people who agree with me lost the argument).
> They will be downloaded to /tmp (possibly whatever your TMP variable
> is, I've never played with it), and then moved to the filesystem you
> actually wanted them saved to afterwards.  If you run out of temp
> space, it will buffer them to VM (which will crush your machine, if
> it doesn't just lock up at some point).  So you can't say, download
> three install disks in parallel (and leave overnight) unless you've
> got 2GB free on /tmp.  I have yet find any way of forcing it to put
> the files on the filesystem I told it to while they are being
> downloaded.
> 
>     The easiest way around this is to use Konquerer.  I believe you
> can also use wget and have it load the cookie you need to access the
> site.  I've never used wget to do it.
> 
> Okay, I just tried it, you can use wget like this:
> 
> wget --cookies=on --load-cookies ~/.mozilla/default/$UNIQ_NAME/cookies.txt -O ship.db.lnx32.cpio.gz
> 'http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle10g/ship.db.lnx32.cpio.gz'
> 
> $UNIQ_NAME is the unique name given to your Mozilla profile.  I
> believe it being public knowledge makes you vulnerable to attack so
> I'm avoiding posting mine.
> 
> The only trick is that you have to actually log into the site via
> Mozilla to get the username and password into your cookie file.
> When the dialog box for where to save it comes up, just Cancel, and
> run the above wget command.
> 
> > Oracle also won't install on either WBEL4 OR RHEL4, manually
> > placing "Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 3 (manifestdestiny)"
> > into /etc/redhat-release was required to successfully install the
> > Oracle client.  A tora-oracle package is now supplied for both
> > i386 and x86_64.
> 
> Thanks for the tip on the Oracle install.  Good to know it will
> install, but there is a trick to it.
> 
>     Kirby
> 

Word to wise: Use konqueror / kget for downloading.

Abt kget:
(A pretty good article about kget in last month's issue of TuxMagazine):
http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000123



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