Turning Oracle Linux 6.1 Graphical

April 10, 2013 — digitaleagle

I have an experimental Oracle Linux VM that I am playing with, and I am going to want to try to run some desktop applications inside the image.  So, I want to enable the X Window Graphical Environment.

Here’s the command to install it all:

yum groupinstall “X Window System” XFCE

Then, I had to edit the /etc/inittab and change the “3″ to a “5″ (on the last line).

When I rebooted, it didn’t offer the login screen.  I had to press Alt+F2 to get to a regular login.  Then, I installed 2 more groups:

yum groupinstall Desktop “General Purpose Desktop”

I am not sure that this got me an XFCE Desktop, but it got me what I needed.

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No Cheating: PeopleSoft 9.2 / PeopleTools 8.53 Need 64-bit

April 4, 2013 — digitaleagle

I know it hasn’t been supported for a while now, but I have been using some 32-bit hardware for testing non-production, non-critical stuff in PeopleSoft for a while now.  It’s been okay for just playing around.  While the 64-bit was certified, all of the Windows binaries were still actually 32-bit.  Linux was a different story … the binary on the Linux side was actually 64-bit and would not work on a 32-bit machine.

Well, I tried to install PeopleSoft 9.2, which requires PeopleTools 8.53.  It doesn’t work even on Windows.  This is the error message:

psadmin failing on 32-bits

Here’s the text if you can’t see the image:

The image file <path>\psadmin.exe is valid, but is for a machine type other than the current machine.

So, no more cheating.  If you want to play around with PeopleSoft, you have to have 64-bit hardware.

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New PeopleSoft Virtual Instance

April 2, 2013 — digitaleagle

I have been reading up on PeopleSoft’s new Update Delivery model.  It sounds very interesting, but one of the things that I caught was the fact that they will be delivering a Virtual Machine on Virtual Box where you can extract the updates that you need.  You can watch a nice video on the topic from Oracle’s YouTube channel:

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Step By Step Install: Creating PeopleSoft Services

March 30, 2013 — digitaleagle

This is a continuation of my Windows 8 PeopleSoft Installation.  Previously, I installed WebLogic.  In this step, I plan to create the application server, batch server, and web server.  After this step, we should be able to log into PeopleSoft.

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Step By Step Install: Installing JRockit

March 29, 2013 — digitaleagle

This post is a continuation of my installation of PeopleSoft on a Windows 8 Beta installation.  Previously, I installed Tuxedo.  This post is about the JRockit JVM.  In PeopleTools 8.52, you might be able to get away with using the Regular Oracle Sun JVM, but WebLogic seems designed to work with the JRockit version.

As a caveat, I have taken so long to proofread my notes that now PeopleTools 8.52 and PeopleSoft 9.2 are out.  From what I can tell so far, you don’t to install JRockit with PeopleTools 8.53.

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Step by Step Install: Installing WebLogic

March 29, 2013 — digitaleagle

This is a continuation of the Windows 8 install.  Previously, I installed the JRockit JVM.  In this post, I am installing the WebLogic web server.  This is the middleware that makes the PIA work.  The PIA is actually created from the psadmin utility, and I’ll do that in a later step/post.

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PeopleTools 8.53 Installation Error

March 28, 2013 — digitaleagle

This is a quick blurb about an installation problem that I ran into.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get screenshots grabbed or exact error messages written down, but maybe this will still help.

The first problem was that near the end of the PeopleTools 8.53 Installer, the program gave me a window describing the usage options for the Windows installer.  It was like the PeopleTools installer had called another installer but hadn’t passed the correct arguments.  I got the window twice, so I am thinking that it tried to call it twice.

Windows Installer Usage window

The next problem was that App Designer wouldn’t start.  I didn’t try any of the other client programs like Data Mover, but I suspect that they would not have worked either.  The error message was something about a missing DLL file.

The PeopleTools install notes had a note about the VC++ Run Time. (Page 142 of the PDF / 116 on paper of the Oracle Database one.)  The solution was to simply install the Microsoft Windows machine’s CRT files.  The installer is located in <PS_HOME>\setup\psvccrt.  I was on a 32-bit machine, so I just ran the psvccrt_retail.msi.

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PeopleSoft 9.2 Released!!

March 27, 2013 — digitaleagle

In case you haven’t already noticed, PeopleTools 9.2 is out and available for download!  You can download it from edelivery.

PeopleSoft 9.2 for download

Just had to add one more screenshot … PeopleTools 8.53 starting up the new version:

PeopleTools 8.53 Splash Screen

 

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Excel To CI: Can’t find project or library

March 20, 2013 — digitaleagle

Today, I received this error in the Excel to CI Macros:

Compile Error: Can’t find project or library

It seems to be pointing to a “sToolBarTemplateActions”.

Excel to CI Error

Thanks to the help of Srinivas Reddy, I think I found the problem.

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Exploring Vagrant with Ubuntu and Oracle XE

March 13, 2013 — digitaleagle

I ran across Andrej Koelewijn’s article about Vagrant over a year ago, and I have been wanting to explore it ever since.  I do a lot of playing around with different things, and Vagrant looked like it would be a cool, quick way to spin up a new image of an OS.  I would love to get it to the point of being able to spin up an instance of PeopleSoft.  I am no where near there now, though.

This is just my first run through.  I set an easy goal of trying to get Oracle XE running on Ubuntu via the repositories.  Unfortunately, I learned that that repository isn’t worth the time.  Still, it was a fruitful exercise, and I definitely will be playing around more with Vagrant.

Follow along if you like…

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