I believe that SLES7 was based on SuSE Pro 7.2/7.3 which were both certified for 8i and 9i and SuSE SLES 8 was/is based on 8.0 like you said.... I had it running on 7.2 Pro (and even 7.2 personal) with no hitches.....true about which gcc gets installed.... -----Original Message----- From: stephen booth [mailto:stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:52 PM To: Hollis, Les Cc: Mladen Gogala; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: problem running dbca On 4/28/05, Hollis, Les <Les.Hollis@xxxxxx> wrote: > You know, I have an install of SuSE 8.0 that I installed 9.2.0.1 on > top of and had absolutely NO problems with it... >=20 > Guess it's the later releases f Linux (9.0 etc ) that just don't like to > play together.... >=20 IIRC SuSE 8.0 was one that a release of SuSE ES was based on so Oracle certified for the ES release would have a better chance of working on that than on another release. As I recall I tried it on SuSE 8.1 Professional and got a similar error to the one you reported.=20 Similarly Oracle 9i1 wouldn't run on RedHat 7.3 but I'm told it will work (with some fiddling) on RedHat 7.0. It's often down to which libraries get installed. Stephen --=20 It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l