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Installing oracle 11g rel2 for linux on a Ubuntu desktop PC

Neill_RMay 18 2012 — edited Aug 9 2012
Attempting to get Oracle Enterpise linux and see if I can install Oracle 11g on that OS




Hi

Although I have 11g R2 running under Windows Xp Sp3 I wish to gain experience of Oracle Database and Oracle client running under Linux. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 when i run the installer

cd database

./renInstaller

then it tells me i have preinstall problems

This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the system is running with proper run level. (more details)
Expected Value
 : 3,5
Actual Value
 : 2
found a way to get round this at boot time

Packages (loads)

This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the package "make-3.80" is available on the system. (more details)
Expected Value
 : make-3.80
Actual Value
 : missing
but if I

$ make -v
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-linux-gnu


It appears it is not finding the make program to see that it is 3.81.

what assignments is missing please

from the installation guide
database folder contains the contents of the install CDrom

oracle@Neill-Desktop:~/database$ sudo rpm -q make
[sudo] password for oracle:
package make is not installed

Edited by: Neill on May 18, 2012 6:32 PM

Edited by: Neill on May 21, 2012 4:48 PM
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