My main issues with CentOS was the package dependencies and requirements prior to installation of the Oracle DB application. I followed an installation manual on the website of Oracle ( http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley_10gdb_install.html ), but reading on it will show that it only mentions about RHEL4 and not RHEL5. Taking on a gamble and much readings over the internet, they differ little with each other in terms of setting-up and requirements.
One thing worth mentioning here is the 3 dependency packages mentioned as a requirement for Oracle, in particular gnome-libs, xscreensaver, and pdksh. I'll just quickly discuss my findings and as to how I dealt with those packages...
- gnome-libs is stated that it is not installed if u do "rpm -q" ... if you can install it manually by downloading the packages over the internet, might as well do so. In my case however, I just tried my best and installed GTK and glib packages since some of its library dependency matches.
- pdksh has been phased out and been replaced with ksh package upon release of RHEL 5, so don't worry about this one.
- xscreensaver has been phased out as well and been replaced with something called gnome-screensaver or something similar.
After going through this ordeal. I managed to finally install Oracle version 10.2.0.1 without any more fuss. Hope this helps to those seeking some answers to this one.
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