Oracle 10gR2 x64 on CentOS 5.4 x64

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May 172010
 

I was asked to install Oracle 10gR2 on one of the clients new machines. Of course I had trouble installing it, since the OS was CentOS and not one of the certified Oracle platforms. The trouble with installing Oracle x64 on non-supported systems is the relinking process. You always run into libraries that cannot be found, or some other shit that’s still looking for 32-bit software/libraries. In my opinion x64 should be the default and all server software should be backported to x86, but that’s just my opinion.

Thanks to this post I was able get Oracle to install properly, basically because the list of prerequisite packages in Oracle’s installation guide is to short. This list (at least on CentOS 5.4) should do the trick:

binutils-2.17.50.0.6-2.el5
compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4
compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61(i386)
control-center-2.16.0-14.el5
gcc-4.1.1-52.el5
gcc-c++-4.1.1-52.el5
gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1
glibc-2.5-12
glibc-common-2.5-12
glibc-devel-2.5-12
glibc-devel-2.5-12(i386)
libgcc-4.1.1-52.el5(i386)
libgcc-4.1.1-52.el5(x86_64)
libgnome-2.16.0-6.el5
libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-22.1
libXp-1.0.0-8.i386
libXp-1.0.0-8.x64
make-3.81-1.1
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
util-linux-2.13-0.44.e15.x86_64

You don’t need the exact versions. Just do a “yum install compat-gcc-34” for instance, and if the installed version is higher, you’re safe.

Android software

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May 052010
 

I have my Motorola Milestone for just over a month now. It’s my main addiction now, so I guess that sums things up quite nicely.

Here’s some (free) software I would like to recommend to you.

1) K-9 Mail. This is how a mailclient should work.

2) Dolphin Browser. The best browser. Period. Forget Opera Mini. Don’t even think about Fennec. Install Dolphin and be happy. It has tabs and gestures. It knows RSS. It has theme-support (but there are none yet). It can switch User Agent to fool those braindead IE-only websites. And most of all: its cache is stored on SD (configurable, but why would anyone not want that?).

3) Jorte. Great calendar app. Has widget support.

4) Air Horn. Just for fun. Download and annoy the others!

I also have paid software. One is Navigon (navigation software). The other is PDANet to tether to my laptop. I could have choosen for the non-paid version, but that doesn’t support secure-connections, so I paid for it.

What I don’t like about Android, is that silent-mode also disables the vibration-mode. You have to enable it by hand. How annoying. Other than that it nothing but gooooood! Buy Android, forget about the rest. No, you don’t need Outlook.