[SGVLUG] Are there any oracle gurus on this list?

[Max Clark]

The GUI installer requires X - it is possible to create an installation 
def file and do a silent installation but the GUI is much simpler. I 
just export the session from the server to my desktop and go from there.

Hershel Remer wrote:
> BS"D
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> Our friend Michael made me laugh with this answer:
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>>>How easy (or difficult) is it to (a) install Oracle on linux, and (b)
>>>actually USE oracle?
>>>
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>>I am not a Oracle expert, but in general Oracle seems to be hard on perpose
>>so that you have to hire a dba to manage it for you.
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> :=))
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> I haven't installed ORCL in many years, but I still recall how messed up the
> installation was back then. One of the requirements was that X needed to be
> running on the system. What kind of database needs X? This is a database, not
> a windows manager!!! Please tell me that they fixed that.
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> -- the unixrabbi
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> Have you got a question about sex? Wondering about unix? or just curious why
> the Jews were chosen and the rest of you Gentiles were not? Well, why not get
> your answers from the Rabbi Rabbs himself at:
> http://www.thedingdongshow.com/messageboard/viewforum.php?f=7 .
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