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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

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

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