Re: tlug: About Oracle on Linux

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

> 
> 
> Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > Not true - Oracle8, at least the one that we have here, is glibc-based.
> > Slackware isn't.  Deadly conflict. :)
> 
> I think that the problem is with the C library too.Can you please suggest
> some way to get over this problem.
> Are the Turbolinux and Redhat distributions glibc-based?
> In that case would it be an easier solution to have a glibc-based Linux
> distribution before installing Oracle8.

that is the *ONLY* solution.  TurboLinux, RedHat, Debian, and SuSE are all
glibc-based.  I think that Slackware is the only major distribution that
is not glibc-based.

> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Venkatesh Raghavan
> Osaka City University
> 
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