Calendar Service - Support

Problem: Oracle Calendar for Linux fails to run on modern Fedora Core (7/8).

These packages may be necessary:

libXp.i386
libstdc++.so.5

Credit to John Ward for this solution.

(This solution may also apply for the Ubuntu distribution.)

Problem: Oracle Calendar for Linux (client) fails to install on Fedora Core 5.

Oracle Calendar client version: 10.1.2.x for Linux
Operating System version: Fedora Core 5

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Preparing to install...
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive...
Unpacking the JRE...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
hostname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Launching installer...
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/tmp/install.dir.7150/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution: Comment LD_ASSUME_KERNEL from the install script.

cp cal_linux cal_linux.bak
cat cal_linux.bak | sed "s/export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/#xport LD_ASSUME_KERNEL/" > cal_linux
./gui_install.sh

Credit to Tory Graziano for this solution.