linux
Oracle Enterprise Linux Yum Server Available
After a slightly protracted delay waiting for our earnings announcement, Oracle Linux Engineering have just announced Enterprise Linux packages for Release 4, Release 5 and Oracle VM 2 are now freely available on a yum server http://public-yum.oracle.com/. Previously, the whole CD or DVD image had to be downloaded for local use.
Thursday, March 19, 2009 | linux | Read More
PHP 5.2.9 RPMs for RHEL are available
PHP 5.2.9 RPMs for RHEL 4 & 5, 32 & 64 bit are now up on http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/. The OCI8 1.3.5 extension is included. If you followed me on twitter, you would have got this news yesterday :)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | linux | Read More
web2Project talk: Northern Virginia Linux User Group at Oracle Reston Sat 7th Feb
Late news, but D. Keith Casey Jr just tweeted that he's talking about the web2Project at NoVaLUG 10am Saturday at Oracle's Reston building. Details on the NOVALUG website
Friday, February 6, 2009 | linux | Read More
Installing Oracle Database 11g on Ubuntu
Paul Vallee from Pythian emailed me that they have a new installation guide out. The name says it all:Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 | linux | Read More
Oracle XE, Ubuntu Hardy
After upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 and deciding to reinstall a bunch of software, I had to revisit a quirk in one Oracle XE shell script: /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh: 114: [[: not found I get the error when I source /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh to set my environment variables.The well known solution, for the OS variants where this is a problem, is to edit that file and change the tests to use...
Thursday, May 1, 2008 | linux | Read More
PHP RPMs with OCI8 and PDO_OCI Extensions
If you want a complete set of PHP RPMs including the OCI8 and PDO_OCI extensions, go to http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/ The intent of this "project" is to make a relatively current version of PHP available for testing. The RPMs hosted at the moment are built from PHP 5.2.3.