Howdy people!

I'm installing OAS 10.1.3.1 on CentOS 5, and although the install goes pretty much smoothly throughout (with a few 'skip this step because I'm not using RHEL' steps), I'm getting stuck near the end with starting the HTTP Server.

(from the error logs)
.../Apache/Apache/bin/apachectl startssl: execing httpd
.../Apache/Apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The lib exists in /usr/local/lib, should I put that in the PATH environment variable, perhaps?
There seems to be a bit of an issue with CentOS and OAS where it can't find the appropriate libraries, even though they're installed. I'm guessing this comes down to some config files and the installer is looking in places where the libs aren't. I could just copy the libs into every single lib folder all over my hd, but it's not exactly a very elegant way of going about getting this thing to install properly.

Anyone managed to install OAS on CentOS 5?

Hi,

You can check out:
http://vnull.pcnet.com.pl/blog/?p=79#comments

"CentOS5 and RHEL5 comes without libdb.so.2 library (old Sleepycat database software). The problem is that there is no RPM for this library in the repositories (newest is only compat-db-4.3 which provides libdb4-3.so."

This is what someone there posted:

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This is from the Oracle 10.2 release notes found here:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/relnotes.102/b15659/toc.htm#CJAHFHCJ

There is actually a compatible library already installed as part of the gdbm-1.8.0-xx.x.x install, which is available for RHEL/OEL/CentOS 5. All you need to do is add a symlink:

ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

I hope this helps. I struggled for a few hours finding this out! It is not particularly well documented that this symlink is required.

– Dave
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