[Spacewalk-list] error in the docu..

[Michael Mraka]

Lukas.Matecki at lvr.de wrote:
% Hmmm so what I did wrong ? Followed the Install instructions step by step. This didn't bring me to a running version.
% Without setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH sqlplus64 will not run. A sqlplus command isn't installed on my System  !

It looks like you don't have oracle-lib-compat package installed.

That's quite surprising... I've always thought it's impossible to get spacewalk
(schema) installed without having sqlplus.

% Atm iam having a full functional Spacewalker running. So where is my mistake ?
%
% greetz
% 
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% > But if you'd done that, wouldn't you have:
% >
% > /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/lib/
% >
% > in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and it'd all work nicely anyway?
% 
% No.
% 
% The client tools are supposed to use the InstantClient tools which do
% not require ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH set. They (might) require
% /etc/tnsnames.ora but not the environment variables.
% 
% If you set the environment variables, you will force the other client
% libraries (cx_Oracle, perl-DBD-Oracle) to dynamically load libraries
% from the Oracle XE distribution, which are *not* the libraries they
% were compiled and tested against. Thus, you might experience Oracle
% libraries issues in the future. This is the reason we have the
% installation instructions and we recommend to follow them.

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat