Installation of Oracle 10.2.0.2 on SLES10 fails with a lot of link errors

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Situation

The installation of Oracle 10.2.0.2 on SLES10 fails with a lot of link errors.

Reason: a missing Oracle Patch

Resolution

Preparation: get Oracle patches 6007358 and 5337014

Run the Oracle GUI for 10.2.0.2 on SLES10 until you get the link error
- let the GUI keep running while you install patch 6007358

The manual steps to follow to apply patch 6007358:

1. Unzip the patch zip file into a temp directory, for instance to:

/tmp/ora

2. This creates an appropriate patch directory structure and has all the necessary files in it.

3. Copy the libraries to the appropriate directory under $ORACLE_HOME.
For example :

export ORACLE_HOME=PLEASE_SET_THIS_VALUE_ACCORDING_TO_YOUR_ORACLE_INSTALLATION

cp /tmp/ora/6007358/files/lib/libclient10.a $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclient10.a
cp /tmp/ora/6007358/files/lib32/libclient10.a $ORACLE_HOME/lib32/libclient10.a

4. Click "Retry" on the error message box from OUI.

This allows completion of 10.2.0.2 installation on SLES10 and then you can upgrade to 10.2.0.3 with patchset 5337014.

Additional Information

Thanks to Mr. Simon Fischer who provided this information.

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