I have the CD from Oracle and found the stuff on suse.com to patch and install it on 6.2. I spent a few hours on it, but it didn't work, and was a horrible experience I wouldn't care to repeat. Clearly it can be
But I don't understand you anyway, because installation is definitely NOT horrible - if you follow the available documentation (i.e. http://www.suse.de/en/support/oracle/ (not needed but recommended) and the Oracle Installation Guide for Linux, which is on the Oracle CD)
It was the overall experience which was horrible because I spent several very frustrating hours with it and finally gave up without success. I found the link you give above, did the patch and changed the JRE as described. It was a few weeks ago, but if I remember, the Java installer ran OK until the final stage - some form of DB creation wizard? It spat out a "something not found" Java error and died. I pressed on thinking I could do without that wizard for a while, and got into the post-installation phase. I was a nightmare of error messages, classes not found, and a whole load of stuff I couldn't get to the bottom of. Most of it seemed related to the JRE the installer was using, the only Oracle documentation on which said the CLASSPATH variable should be set correctly: see your Linux distro documentation. I didn't have a CLASSPATH, and couldn't find anything about it. I'd had enough and gave up. I followed the documentation I had to the letter so trying again probably won't help. I'll just end up in the same place. Maybe when I have a spare weekend I'll do it all again. In the meantime I bought a book on MySQL... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/