wine users - Mar 2009 - Trying to install Oracle 10gR2 client

Well, I have been trying to see if I can get the installer for the Oracle 10gR2
Client to install. (Available from here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10201winsoft.html
)

The first problem I encountered was some kind of JRE DirectDraw problem that I
can work around with an extra command line parameter (setup
-J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true). This gets the installer to run.

But what has me stumped is that when it starts the actual installation process
of creating folders and copying files, it modifies the file permissions - in
such a way that it can no longer write to the folder! And the installer bombs
out.

I think the idea is, when installing under Windows, it is trying to make sure
"SYSTEM" has full access, but appears to do that by removing
"Everyone" and adding specific groups.

Anyway, I am looking for any possible workaround. Is there some way to tell Wine
not to mess with file permissions?

I tried changing the owner of the folder beforehand but since it looks like an
NTFS drive, it expects to be able to manipulate the permissions, and promptly
bombs out. Same thing when I pointed it to a FAT drive that doesn't have
these kinds of permissions - although the drive still reported as NTFS to Wine.
A long time ago there used to be a way to specify the file system type for Wine,
is there way to tell Wine to report that as a FAT/FAT32 drive currently? The
Oracle 10g Client CAN be installed to a FAT drive under Windows and there it
doesn't complain about being unable to set permissions.

Any ideas? Thanks.

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 18:46 -0600, JustZisGuy wrote:
> A long time ago there used to be a way to specify the file system type
> for Wine, is there way to tell Wine to report that as a FAT/FAT32
> drive currently? The Oracle 10g Client CAN be installed to a FAT drive
> under Windows and there it doesn't complain about being unable to set
> permissions.
> 
Format a vfat partition and install Oracle there?

It could be on a spare bit of your main drive. If you have no spare
space and can't or don't want to shrink a partition with spare space in
it you could always use an external USB disk to see if that solves the
problem.
 

Martin

JustZisGuy wrote:
> But what has me stumped is that when it starts the actual installation
process of creating folders and copying files, it modifies the file permissions
- in such a way that it can no longer write to the folder! And the installer
bombs out.

Examples please! On *NIX you can't create directories/files so you yourself
won't be able to access at all. You can always change permissions on such
files/directories to whatever you need.

JustZisGuy wrote:
> nathan at bignathan:~/.wine/drive_c/oracle/product/10.2.0$ ls -l
> total 4
> d----wS--- 3 nathan nathan 4096 2009-03-08 10:56 client_1
Hm that is messed up... I don't think Wine setting such permissions, unless
there is a bug somewhere.

I'd say remove your ~/.wine directory (or test with the brand new
wineprefix). Run installer as normal user. See what happens. If the problem
persist - please file a bug report in Wine's bugzilla.

Filed a bug on this: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17672