Document - Add-on if admin considers necessary!!!

[roy]

Dear Admin,
Lets consider the scenerio, Absolete newbie -in Linux and oracle 11i. Just following the Administration Document V 3.5 faithfully and blindly. What happens when this newbie reaches page 27 - 2.2 [ Apply patch 4198954 ] How will he/she apply the patch?
Chances are that a user account was created in linux. So to apply the patch do you login as the user or root and then where is the patches applied?

Sorry, if I have missed any notes on this, if not, I think it would be good to have this covered.

Roy

[Rizwan.Cheema]

Thanks to help me in this regard, I will update this document very soon to remove this confusion.

I try to give you step by step solution to apply this patch.

Download the patch from metalink

Unzip the patch with this command

<b>$ unzip p4198954_21_LINUX.zip</b>


it will create a folder 4198954

Change directory to 4198954 with this command

<b>$ cd 4198954</b>

If you take the list you will get following two files

<b>$ ll</b>
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 3999 Feb 23 2005 compat-libcwait-2.0-2.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 3692 Feb 23 2005 compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 753 Feb 23 2005 README.txt

Now run this command to apply these rpm file at OS level

Login as root user

<b>$su root</b>
<b>$rpm -i compat-libcwait-2.0-2.i386.rpm</b>

And then

<b>$rpm -i compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm</b>

Thanks and Regards
Rizwan Ahmad Cheema

[admin]

or easy way to double click the file just like you run an .exe file on windows. So applying patch on linux is like installation of a software on windows. Hope now much clear. thanks