Oracle on Solaris 10 (64-bits)

If you try to install Oracle on Solaris 10 (x86-x64 version) and you run into the following error when you start the installer:

ld.so.1: java: fatal relocation error...

then you probably have your locale defined as “en_US.UTF-8″, the default. This is a bug in Java on Solaris. Workaround is to set it (temporary) to something else (e.g. en_US.ISO8859-15). This will not affect how you install the software, but only how the installer itself runs.

I ran into this on Solaris 10 Developer Edition 09/07 on AMD64, with Oracle 10g 64-bits for Solaris.