Oracle server under RHEL 4

[Rankin, Kent]

I'm with you on the deprecated X stuff.  I'm not positive what requires it, but I know that it requests the openmotif libs as well.

I also agree on only installing what's necessary.  I think that it's a trait of mine that comes from working with commercial unices before I started working with Linux distributions which always want to install gobs of things by default.

What I would likely do if I were you and felt it important to trim things down is to maybe fire up a VM of RHEL4 and gradually snapshot and remove components, committing the snapshot only after you are certain that the machine remains operable.  At the end of it all, do a rpm -qa and use that as your standard for kickstart-ing your Oracle machines.


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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Paul B. Henson
Sent: Mon 3/3/2008 2:01 PM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: Oracle server under RHEL 4
 
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Rankin, Kent wrote:

> The install guide lists the dependencies.

Not all of them. I did a minimal install including only the specifically
listed packages, and there was tons of stuff broken. The GUI installer
wouldn't even run due to the lack of deprecated X libraries, a number of
link failures occurred, and there are other weird errors.

Also, among the explicitly listed dependencies are xscreensaver and the
Gnome control-panel applet, which seems ludicrous...

When I opened a ticket to ask why they needed a screensaver on a headless
server, and for a better list of dependencies, is when they gave me the
line about only supporting a default RPM installation.

> This is an awful approach to taking care of the problem.

Yeah, in general it seems Oracle takes awful approaches 8-/. I particularly
like the way after every installer patch update the file /dev/null0 shows
up 8-/.

BTW, for the sake of completeness of my survey could I trouble you to
provide your opinion on default RPM versus minimal install?

Thanks much...


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