Howto install Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4) on Fedora Core 5
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Check packages with:

  rpm -q gcc glibc-headers glibc-kernheaders glibc-devel compat-libstdc++ cpp compat-gcc

Install compat-libstdc++ && compat-gcc :

  rpm -ivh compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.126.i386.rpm compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.126.i386.rpm

Install compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.fc4 \
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4 \
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4

  rpm -ivh \
    compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.fc4.i386.rpm \
    compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.fc4.i386.rpm;
  rpm -ivh --force \
    compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4.i386.rpm;

Use --force for the last package because 

  file /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so from install of compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4 conflicts with file from package compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.126
  file /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so from install of compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4 conflicts with file from package compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.126

Switch gcc to the old one:

  ls -la /usr/bin/gcc*
  mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc4
  ln -s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc

Download the Java Runtime Enviroment (j2re-1_3_1_15-linux-i586.bin) from the Sun website http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html . Keep in mind you need to download j2re1.3.1_11 or higher (Note: Install JRE 1.3.1_1x version only).

Login as root and make the the file executable and then execute it. When the JRE is extracted move the "jre1.3.1_15" directory to "/usr/java" directory.

When all archives were extracted you've got three directories Disk1, Disk2 and Disk3.
Edit the Disk1/install/linux/oraparam.ini and modify JRE_LOCATION variable and set path to our JRE installation from the previous step.

  JRE_LOCATION=/usr/java/jre1.3.1_15

  ORACLE_BASE=/db/app ./Disk1/runInstaller

During the installation, before the linking phase, edit the contents of the "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/gennttab" file, amending the following entries:

 # Change this...
 LIB=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB}  | $SED 's/ /\\
 /g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`
 INI=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB}  | $SED 's/ /\\
 /g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`
 BAS=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB} | $SED 's/ /\\
 /g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`

 # To this...
 LIB=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB}  | $SED 's/ /\n/g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`
 INI=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB}  | $SED 's/ /\n/g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`
 BAS=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB} | $SED 's/ /\n/g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`
 
If you don't do this the ntcontab will hang indefinitely during the linking phase.

To Re-install:

  sudo rm -rf /etc/oraInst.loc /db/app/*  /tmp/OraInstal* > /dev/null
  rm -f /tmp/* > /dev/null

===Post install===

After the installation dbca will crash horribly. The easiest way to solve
this seems to be to instruct oracle to use the custom installed java jre.

  mv $ORACLE_HOME/JRE $ORACLE_HOME/JRE.bak
  ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1_18 $ORACLE_HOME/JRE
  sudo ln -s java /usr/java/jre1.3.1_18/bin/jre
  sudo ln -s java /usr/java/jre1.3.1_18/bin/i386/green_threads/jre
  sudo ln -s java /usr/java/jre1.3.1_18/bin/i386/native_threads/jre