Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.1 - LINUX ORACLE Tuning Manual page 136

Chapter 35. Installing Oracle9i R2 (9.2.0.4.0) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
To resolve the __libc_wait symbol issue, download the p3006854_9204 patch
p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip from http://metalink.oracle.com. See bug 3006854 for more
information. To apply the patch, run
# unzip p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip
Archive: p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip
creating: 3006854/
inflating: 3006854/rhel3_pre_install.sh
inflating: 3006854/README.txt
# cd 3006854
# sh rhel3_pre_install.sh
Applying patch...
Patch successfully applied
#
If everything goes wrong...
If you get the following error when you run rhel3_pre_install.sh:
rhel3_pre_install.sh: line 36: gcc: command not found
The error means you must install or link gcc correctly. This will mean you cannot start any
binaries any more, for example:
# ls
ls: error while loading shared libraries: /etc/libcwait.so: cannot
open shared object
file: No such file or directory
# rm /etc/ld.so.preload
rm: error while loading shared libraries: /etc/libcwait.so: cannot
open shared object
file: No such file or directory
#
To fix that, run the echo. echo is a built-in shell command and not a binary so it will still
work.
# echo "" > /etc/ld.so.preload rm /etc/ld.so.preload
Now you can start the process over from the beginning of the chapter.
Now runInstaller can be started from the CD:
su - oracle
$ echo $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
2.4.1
$ /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller
- Welcome Screen: Click Next
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# it is important that this variable is set!