Oracle 9i installation

[Rommel T. Misa_1]

Hi,

Need to install Oracle 9i on an rp3410 running HP-UX 11i v1 Enterprise OE. But the installation is not completed due the makefile command is not found on the system. What software do I need to install to solve this?

Thanks.

Rommel

[Indira Aramandla · Accepted solution]

Hi Rommel,

When you say you have errors while installing Oracle 9i on HP-UX 11i,due to makefile issues did you check the $ORACLE_HOME/install/make.log to find more details.

make file errors are raised when some of the shared libraries are missing in /user/lib

Eg: - "Error in invoking target install of makefile /ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk"

While installing Oracle 8i/9i on HP, the linker will look for libXm.sl,libXt.sl and libX11.sl when compiling the binary 'ctxhx'.

Check for the existence of these in /usr/lib and if they do not exist, please make the necessary symbolic links.

Solution Description

1) Verify if libXm.sl exists in /usr/lib:

% cd /usr/lib
% ls -al libXm.sl

If this file does not exist, the linker will fail. It should be a symbolic link to another file, the base X11/Motif library.

2) Check for base X11/Motif libraries.

% ls -al libXm.*

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 00:14 libXm.1@ -> /usr/lib/Motif1.2/libXm.1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 00:14 libXm.2@ -> /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 00:14 libXm.3@ -> /usr/lib/Motif1.2_R6/libXm.3
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 00:14 libXm.4@ -> /usr/lib/Motif2.1/libXm.4

Oracle Metalink says that there are X-Library links that need to be created manually for 9i installation:
Due to a known HP bug, the default HP-UX 64 operating system installation does not create a few required X-librarysymbolic links. These links must be created manually before starting the Oracle9i Release 2 installation. You must have superuser privileges to run these commands.

$ su - root
$ cd /usr/lib
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libX11.3 libX11.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXIE.2 libXIE.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXext.3 libXext.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXhp11.3 libXhp11.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXi.3 libXi.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.4 libXm.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXp.2 libXp.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXt.3 libXt.sl
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libXtst.2 libXtst.sl

I hope this helps.

Indira A

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi rommel,

as IA mentioned above, it is important to post the exact error from the installation log file. Without that, it will be quite difficult to help you.

regards
Yogeeraj