Oracle is looking for depreciated libs. Please take look on: metalink note#*453705.1 the following discussions on the web may help http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=57681&topic_id=14678 http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=323437 http://ivan.kartik.sk/oracle/install_ora10gR2_fedora.html Michael * On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Carmen Rusu <rusucarmen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only hardware available is this Thinkpad T61 laptop x86_64 with Centos > el5 on it. > > I need to install Oracle 9i on it to rman - clone a production 9i at a > point in time. The production db is the only server available and the only > other hardware available for cloning is this laptop... > > So far I am stuck with not being able to make the OUI start - it complains > about a missing java shared objects: > > /tmp/OraInstall.../jre/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory. > > Anybody out there who was able to install Oracle RDBMS software on ThinkPad > with Linux/RedHat/Centos? > > Than you very much in advance! > Carmen Rusu > DBA > -- Best Regards Michael Elkin