Fedora4 Oracle Upgrade Problem

[ESJHJ]

Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade some Fedora4 based Oracle database servers from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2. My problem is that the Unix admin when building the servers used the server settings without any graphical user interfaces. Now I'm using the silent method to upgrade and I'm getting all kinds of missing GUI libraries needed for Java (ie LibXp.so.6). I'm behind a bunch of firewalls and if I download a rpm I'm missing dependent rpm's constantly. Any way of adding a X windows env. now???? Oracle suggested using the workstation settings during the install since it adds > 200 rpm's (including X windows).

[A.Serbinski]

Fedora 4... as a server??? Bad choice and now you get to pay the price as it is no longer supported. The command for installing the whole X system with gnome, etc., might be something like;

yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment", which will install gnome and all its dependencies (including X).


Preferably though, you'll upgrade each of these machines to some OS with a better life, like RHEL, or its free clone, CentOS. I really suggest that if you're running servers (and asking the kind of questions that you're asking), that you bite the bullet and buy RHEL as you're paying for support.