Swap Memory in Oracle Developer Suite installation

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:55 am

Hi,

I am installing Oracle Developer Suite in my PC and when I execute the setup.exe file using Wine, following error appears: Verifying Swap Space: 0 MB available, 1535 MB necessary (I translated from Portuguese, maybe some different words in English). Does someone knows how to solve this?

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:56 pm

Try to run winetricks volnum.

So, if you don't have winetricks, bash this:

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wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks volnum

That should probably fix it. Unless...do you have that ammount of free disk space? I guess you do.

Jorl17

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:35 pm

Thanks for your support, but unfortunately it didn't work. I still have the same behavior. Do you have another tip?

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:44 pm

That's odd. According yo what I googled that means, in a windows install, that it didn't find any free space in the C:\ drive.

So I figured you needed that trick.

So that's odd, and it means that it's probably looking elsewhere for info.

Is there a version for your OS? Or do you absolutely need the wine version?

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:15 pm

I am using UBUNTU 8.04 and Oracle just releases this software for RedHat and windows OS. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/softwa ... index.html

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:53 am

After clicking on the "Linux" keyword right next to the application's name, I got this page:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/softwa ... xsoft.html

This seems to be a (generic?) Linux version of the application. Have you tried downloading those and following the instructions on that page? If it's RedHat-oriented, it might still work on your Ubuntu system.

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:13 am

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 05:53 -0500, DaVince wrote:

After clicking on the "Linux" keyword right next to the application's
name, I got this page:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/softwa ... xsoft.html

This seems to be a (generic?) Linux version of the application. Have
you tried downloading those and following the instructions on that
page? If it's RedHat-oriented, it might still work on your Ubuntu
system.

Oracle support Debian internally. Ubuntu is a Debian fork, so try
looking for a Debian version. That may work with the Ubuntu package
installer.

Martin

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:27 am

I already tried that. This works only for Red-Hat distributions. Oracle releases this application only for Linux based on Red-Hat distributions. Also, I already verified that there is no work-around for making this application to run on Debian distributions.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:46 pm

gokuyama wrote:I already tried that. This works only for Red-Hat distributions. Oracle releases this application only for Linux based on Red-Hat distributions. Also, I already verified that there is no work-around for making this application to run on Debian distributions.

Then install RedHat. Wine will never run any program better then native version can.

rein · Post by **rein** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:37 am

gokuyama wrote:Hi,

I am installing Oracle Developer Suite in my PC and when I execute the setup.exe file using Wine, following error appears: Verifying Swap Space: 0 MB available, 1535 MB necessary (I translated from Portuguese, maybe some different words in English). Does someone knows how to solve this?

Apart from all advice to try a native program. Since this is a wine forum, I'd like to know:

How much swap do you actually have (eg. report the output of the command "free" in a terminal)?

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:13 am

Hello. I can not change my OS, since it is a corporative machine and we are not allowed to do that.
When I execute free command, I have in total 3879656 free swap memory.

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:36 pm

But do note that what they call 'swap memory' was reported on some guide I read (unfortunately, I closed all my tabs and don't have it here) to be free disk space.

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:45 pm

Hi Jorl,

What do you mean? Do you mean that the used swap memory is NOT the output of the free command? Is there another swap area in the system? How can I verify it?

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:13 am

No, sorry if I did not make myself clear.

I meant that I somewhere found a guide for windows that taught how to install this software. While reading it, I found an information stating that, to fix the error "Verifying Swap Space: 0 MB available, 1535 MB necessary", one had to free up more disk space in drive C. So it seems that, by swap space, they do not mean 'swap as in virtual memory' but 'swap as in free disk space'. I can not find that article again, but I remember it was in a blog somewhere.

So, your command shows the swap memory, but, according to that guide, the application needs disk space.

That's why I previously though that the problem was related with the app not 'identifying' the drive.

I might be Wrong though / Posso estar errado....

gokuyama · Post by **gokuyama** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:24 am

Thanks Jorl (obrigado Jorl)!
I think that it is not a problem of free disk space, since I have more than 100Gb free. But anyway, thanks for the hints.

If you have any other idea, please give me an advice.
Regards,
Gilberto

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:07 am

Well, I guess I _could_ advise you to do something nasty then

You might try to get a VM (or, simply, another machine) up and running with windows (Legal of course) and install the software there. Get an application that checks for changes in registry and etcetera. Then, export all the registry keys that the installer changes. Adding to that, copy the folders it changes (probably just located at C:\program files c:\programas or c:\arquivos de programas).

So, with the folders and the registry backed up, you can 'pretend' you installed it in Wine, by importing the exported keys and placing the application right where it should be (if it is at c:\programas, place it in ~/.wine/drive_c/Programas etcetera)

That's kind of a last resort option if nothing else works.

Cheers,

Jorl17

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:56 pm

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 14:07, jorl17<[email protected]> wrote:

Well, I guess I _could_ advise you to do something nasty then

Get an application that checks for changes in registry and etcetera. Then, export all the registry keys that the installer changes. Adding to that, copy the folders it changes (probably just located at C:\program files c:\programas or c:\arquivos de programas).

Installing it in Altiris SVS (it has a free personal edition and
allows you to track/undo/view/isolate/export almost any file/registry
change made by a program) should work... (A tool to import the package
in Wine would be really useful... The packages are standard ZIP files,
but contains a few files that need to be figured out...)