Mageia and Oracle 11g compatibility

[caskyline10]

Hi,
Has anyone had success to get Oracle 11G 64 bit running on Mageia? Are there any plans to make Mageia compatible with Oracle 11g? I am testing Mageia 3 Alpha 3 and just experimenting with Oracle and it looks like there are a lot of prerequisite packages that are either not available or the wrong version.

Thanks

[doktor5000]

just experimenting with Oracle and it looks like there are a lot of prerequisite packages that are either not available or the wrong version.

Which packages would that be?

[caskyline10]

Hi,
Attached is an image of the requirements shown by the installer.

Oracle11gR2_requirements.jpeg (143.81 KiB) Viewed 3747 times

There are a few requirements that are not the correct version, like:
glibc-2.3.4-2.41 (Mageia 3 Alpha 3 has 2.16)
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3 (I don't see that in Mageia)
elfutils-libelf-0.97 (Mageia 3 Alpha 3 has .154)

I realize I could submit a bug report to request these be updated. I was just asking if it is already on the roadmap to make Mageia compatible with Oracle in the future.
Thanks

[doktor5000]

I realize I could submit a bug report to request these be updated.

No, as Mageia already contains newer versions then required. Older versions cannot be reintroduced.

[caskyline10]

Looks to me that Mageia 3 Alpha 3 has older versions.
Look at for example:
elfutils-libelf. Oracle requires 0.97....Mageia has .154
glibc Oracle requires 2.3.4-2.41..........Mageia has 2.16

[Ken-Bergen]

Looks to me that Mageia 3 Alpha 3 has older versions.
Look at for example:
elfutils-libelf. Oracle requires 0.97....Mageia has .154
glibc Oracle requires 2.3.4-2.41..........Mageia has 2.16

154 is greater than 97
16 is greater than 3

[alf]

Looks to me that Mageia 3 Alpha 3 has older versions.
Look at for example:
elfutils-libelf. Oracle requires 0.97....Mageia has .154
glibc Oracle requires 2.3.4-2.41..........Mageia has 2.16

154 is greater than 97
16 is greater than 3

Maybe OP is confused by ascii-collating-sequence where 97 is higher than 154 and 3 is higher than 16

[doktor5000]

What may get you into trouble is more the fact that Mageia doesn't have the really old gcc-3.x but only 4.6 and only the newer libstdc++6-4.6.3-2.mga2 belonging to this newer gcc compiler. But you don't know until you try it out.

[caskyline10]

Yes I was getting confused by the ascii-collating-sequence where 97 is higher then 154....sorry about the confusion.

I will continue to try it out.
Thanks

[caskyline10]

When I install Oracle I get this error:
INFO: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /home/test1/app/test1/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ctx/lib//libsc_fa.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

Mageia3 has /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6, which is just a link to libstdc++.so.6.0.17. If I make a new link called libstdc++.so.5 to libstdc++.so.6.0.17:

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cd /usr/lib64
root@localhost lib64]# ls -latr libstd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 981400 Oct 24 15:17 libstdc++.so.6.0.17*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Nov 11 13:19 libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.17*
[root@localhost lib64]# ln -s libstdc++.so.6.0.17 libstdc++.so.5
[root@localhost lib64]# ls -latr libstd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 981400 Oct 24 15:17 libstdc++.so.6.0.17*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Nov 11 13:19 libstdc++.so.6 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.17*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Nov 19 19:15 libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.6.0.17*

When I try the install again I get this error:
INFO: /lib64/libstdc++.so.5: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail@GLIBC_2.4'

There is something not compatible.

[doktor5000]

Well just compare the glibc versions required and present, and you will see the huge difference.

FWIW, if you want to search for the library containing that symbol you can use something like

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for f in /usr/lib/*.so.*; do objdump -t -T $f | grep stack_chk_fail | grep -v '*UND*' && echo $f; done