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Always nice to see that my free versions of Postgresql and mysql compile and run EVERYWHERE, but my grossly expensive licensed copy of Oracle as usual does not install. What a bunch of shit.

Prerequisites:

• Make sure you emerge lib-compat and gcc-compat. 

Problem 1: the bloody installer hangs during linking of ntcontab.

This is caused by an error in the script $ORACLE_HOME/bin/gennttab. In this script they try to replace a space with a newline using sed but the code fails with a sed command error. To fix replace the part reading

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

with

LIB=`$ECHO ${TtoLIB}  | $SED 's/ /\n/g' | $GREP "^${T}:" | $AWK -F: '{print $2}'`

for all three lines. The fixed script is attached.

Problem 2: error linking in opt/oracle/10g/bin/genorasdksh -base

Caused by a missing /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5. Fix this by linking this to the appropriate library installed by lib-compat; in my case

ln -s /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5

Problem 3: missing libaio library

This can be seen with ldd oracle. Tips to get this library can be found here