How I fooled Oracle Database Server !

Well I recently installed Fedora 16 Verne 64 bit on my laptop on my new internal hard disk. This time I took a bold move to remove Windows completely from my FOSS Laptop !

I wanted to install Oracle Database server 10/11 g. Oracle 10g is not available for 64 bit GNU/linux. So I could not install it. 11g is available for 64 bit Fedora. But it failed saying it needs 2048 MB of swap !!!

I had 48 MB less swap than required. I had recently set up my partitions and installed all the required packages. It is very tedious job to install everything in bare GNU/Linux. So I recommend to use remastered/spins version if available. So it was almost impossible for me to increase my swap space. So I decided to fool the Oracle !!!

I formatted my 4GB pendrive with swap file system type and then added the swap using ‘swapon‘. It worked !!! My swap increased to almost 6GB. Then I could easily install Oracle Database Server (64 bit). Just after installation I unmounted my pendrive. That took my swap space again back to 48 MB less to 2048 MB.

But now oracle database server works !!! 🙂

man pages of c functions in Fedora?

Well the fedora live desktop do not have pre-installed manual pages for C functions like scanf,fwrite,etc.

Well you can have them with a package man-pages.noarch

Just execute : su -c ‘yum install man-pages.noarch in terminal

Now you can use manual pages (instead of remembering  arguments of every C function) !

Enjoy C Coding!

Update through yum under proxy!

You can update your Fedora using Yum through proxy…!!!

Just Add a line in the file /etc/yum.conf

proxy=http://proxy:port

Also export proxy in terminal using the following command…

export http_proxy=’proxy:port’

You can add this command in .bashrc to avoid executing it everytime you start the terminal.

Fedora 15 is amazing…….!!!

Lovelock (Fedora 15) is  the signature of Innovation coupled with brilliance….