Hints for installing oracle 9.2 on Debian Sarge(as of May 24, 2005):

Some packages for Sarge as of 5.24.2005:

libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4_i386.deb  #This is from woody, installes fine

DON'T FORGET: get gcc-2.95 and cpp-2.95 and do the links in /usr/bin

Plus these files...some just for the stupid fucking gui installer! (You hear me Ellisson!!!!
Its a stupid fucking gui....its horrible! Give me a fucking command line back!....and by 
the way, whats this fucking J2EE server it installed.....I don't need that shit to run oracle!): 

zlib1g-dev gawk libxtst6 libxp6 libxp-dev libxtst-dev libxt-dev libstdc++6-dev libstdc++5-3.3-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

Some hints:

You need to have gcc pointed at 2.95 not the the 3 series during install. Oracle won't compile 
its stuff properlly atm. With any luck they will move out of the stone age soon.

The Oracle install gui does not like dual monitor/xinerama. It honks up the gui. Temporarily 
convert to a single display in X for the install.

Once installed, mv the two directories in $ORACLE_BASE/jre/ to something else...."-oem" is 
fine. Then do sym links to a newer 1.4 jre.....I installed the native deb packages from blackdown, 
which end up in /usr/lib/j2se/1.4 so I just sym linked to the jre directory in it. Also, you have 
to go into the jre/bin directory and symlink java to jre. I don't know why "jre" no longer exists. 
Once you have done that, the tools like netca will work.


/etc/security/limits.conf:

#Max Stack Size
oracle          soft    stack   32768
oracle          hard    stack   32768

#Max Open Files
oracle          soft    nofile  65536
oracle          hard    nofile  65536

#Max Num Processes
oracle          soft    nproc   16384
oracle          hard    nproc   16384


/etc/sysctl.conf

kernel.threads-max = 100000
kernel.sem = 100 32000 100 100
kernel.shmmax = 536870912
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 2097152

#May be redundant with setting above
fs.file-max = 65536