I put together a few RPMs that can help make life easier on SRS5 on OEL (or RHEL or CentOS). Download here. – libflashsupport will help OSS audio support for flash10 – SunRay-addons is an rpm that contains 2 utaction scripts 1) autoresize -> will try to reset resolution based on your new DTU screen [...]
We've re-organized and and rationalized this one-stop-shop for Oracle-on-Linux installation (for OEL, RHEL, SLES, and more). Of course, the Oracle Validated RPM is always your best bet. Link to the original site
So, I’m in the home stretch installing WebCenter. Here’s the installation guide, if you’re following along at home. Yesterday, I got through the “Preparing to Install” steps, which consist mostly of running RCU to create the WebCenter schemas. I’m skipping the installation of JDeveloper for the time being. If I were using the VM in [...]
About 2 months ago I wrote a little blog entry that had a preview of the “upcoming” cli tool for Oracle VM. Well, as of today, if you have ULN (Unbreakable Linux Network) access, you can actually grab the cli rpms. We released the first version. Likely by the end of next week, we are [...]
In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2 installation media have the oracle-validated RPM on it. The same is true for the Enterprise Linux 4 Update 7 media. If you don’t have access to ULN, and you want to install oracle-validated including its dependencies, here’s a quick way to set [...]
With the release of Oracle VM I just could not resist the temptation to install it on my old T43 laptop. That model is a bit old using a Pentium chip which has caused a bit of a challenge. The Oracle VM Server installed without any trouble booting from the ISO image I burned to [...]
When I finally got fed up with one of my Windows XP boxes struggling through a thrashed registry and overly fragmented disk I decided to install a new OS on the box. Naturally I decided to use the latest Oracle Enterprise Linux release (r5). Once the base OS was installed and configured I moved on [...]
While I was over on Sergio’s blog looking at the oracle-validated-rpm from a comment by Avi on my last blog entry, I saw another post that I think needs more publicity New Oracle Public Yum Server If you’re like me and have a bunch of machines that you muck around on and don’t want to [...]