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Running oracle-database-preinstall-21c on a RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 Linux flavor

With Oracle Linux 8 you just run – because the package comes with # dnf install -y oracle-database-preinstall-21c and then If you want optionally # yum update -y But for non-Oracle dialects like RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 you can download and bang the package in as follows – saves a lot of time curl …

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XWindows didn’t get installed on your RHEL 8/7 (or clone centos etc). Then do this

BTW if XWindows is not loaded on your linux app for RHEL or clones you can go here, download the RPM and do a yum install like this: Another oddity – with Centos8 Gnome DISPLAY is set like this: export DISPLAY=:0 In other words normally for xWindows you do something like this to set your …

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default colors set in .bashrc for WSL are annoying to me – ubuntu

All those hard to read colors in WSL and really any Linux prompts where they have changed the colors – here’s how to turn them off vi ~/.bashrc change any alias’ed  commands to color=never change color_prompt=yes to color_prompt=no hint:  hit escape <~> to get to the vi command line then: %s/color_prompt=yes/color_prompt=no/g Vi or vim syntax …

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