> Oracle's graphical installer is a material impediment to Oracle
> adoption. The installer only works on systems where particular versions
> of Java and Motif libraries are available. On 64-bit Opteron systems it
> only works with the peculiar 32-bit thunking tree favored by Red Hat and
> hardly anybody else.
>
> If I could install Oracle on Debian/AMD64 with a shell script, I'd drop
> Postgresql in a heartbeat.
>
> Obviously anybody is welcome and able to just write whatever software
> they feel is needed, but go ahead and count me among the skeptics.
>
The installer is for the 98% not the 2%. You are in the 2%.
Joshua D. Drake
> -jwb
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