HOMEPAGE:
http://www.suse.com/en/support/oracle/

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Tip: You can use the older archives for Oracel 8.0.5.x with
later SuSE Linux releases.
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No more patches were needed so we stopped making them
for newer SuSE Linux and Oracle products.

The only two interesting files these days are the
orarun*.rpm packages.


Format of files using an example:

oracle8051-suse62.tar.gz
  |     |       |
  |     |       |
Name of |       |
Oracle  |       |
product |       |
        |       |
        |       |
     Version of |
     the Oracle |
     product    |
                |
                |
             Version of SuSE
             Linux this packet
             has been made for


Each archive contains the files necessary to run a particular Oracle
product (e.g. WebDB, Oracle Database, OAS) on a particular version
of SuSE Linux. 

For example, oracle8051-suse62.tar.gz contains these 4 files:
  1.  oracle8051-suse62/tcl_old.rpm
  2.  oracle8051-suse62/libtcl7.5.so
  3.  oracle8051-suse62/orarun.rpm
  4.  oracle8051-suse62/patch.gz

#1 is an old version of Tcl-lib (7.5, only the lib, no complete Tcl)
   required by Oracle Intelligent Agent.
#2 is the dynamic library that's also in packet #1 above, but a
   glibc-2.0 version needed for linking the Oracle Intelligent Agent
   executables.
#3 contains SysV startup scripts for Oracle, including the runlevel
   symlinks. Since this is a SuSE packet an entry is added to 
   /etc/rc.config: START_ORACLE=yes|no
#4 is the patch required for this version on Oracle on this version
   of Linux. A detailed descripiton of what bugs this patch fixes
   is on the web page.