Problem installing Oracle 8.1.5

[bcheong]

Hi gurus,

I am trying to install Oracle 8.1.5 (32 bit) on an E250 development server running Solaris 8. I have done all preinstallation tasks: creating the user,group and directories, changing ownership, setting kernel parameters, oracle user environment variables (ORACLE_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH, ORACLE_SID). However I am getting the following error when I run the Installer:

Error in invoking target ntcontab.o of makefile /export/home/oracle/oraHome1/network/lib/ins_net_client.mk

Hope someone can help me out here.

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Ben

[Edited by bcheong on 05-22-2002 at 07:43 AM]

[mbawa]

Change the oracle user's .profile to somthing like this.Remember the PATH should be in the same order as I have specified here.i.e. usr/ccs/bin should come before /usr/bin and run the installer again.Let me know if this works

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7
export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME

LIBPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export LIBPATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/network/lib:/usr/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ORACLE_SID=PEGD
export ORACLE_SID
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:.
export PATH

[akash]

Hi
Run the make file.
Command
make -f install
You might get linking error after running make file.
Do this: in usr/lib - softlink that file /lib
Try to do this.
Thanks
Akash

[bcheong]

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies. I've managed to solve the problem. It was embarassingly easy in the end.

The profile had all the required environment variables defined. However, after looking at the make.log, i noticed that it was complaining that it couldn't execute /usr/ccs/bin/cpp. The reason? The file wasn't there! After just copying all the /usr/css/bin files over from another server, the installer completed the installation without a hitch.

Now I'm going to look for the Sysadmin who installed the OS and give him evil looks. =)

Thanks again guys.

Cheers!
Ben