HOWTO Install Oracle 10g on SLES8
From Suntel Communications knowledgebase
Oracle 10g requires specific versions of some RPMS. If you have not installed SLES8 SP3 you will need to individually install the following patches from Recommended update for the GCC suite:
gcc libgcc cpp gcc-c++ libstdc++ libstdc++-devel gcc-info gcc-g77 gcc-java gcc-objc libgcj libgcj-devel
If you have a Novell account with a registered SLES license you can download updates for different architectures from:
