NullPointerException during D6 Content Server Installation

While installing D6 Content Server on Linux I got a NullPointerException right at the point when it would try to install Weblogic for the Java Method Server. I was unable to locate any helpful information from the logs.

Then I found a thread on Powerlink Support Forums, entitled “Error Installing D6 Content Server”. While it didn’t give a direct solution, one of the posts indicated that it is probably a permissions issue. I did a quick check and sure enough /opt/dctm has owned by root while the install owner was dmadmin. Changing ownership of the installation path to dmadmin fixed the problem.

libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file

Encountered the above error while installing Oracle 10g on Fedora Core 6 running on AMD Athlon X2 64-bit architecture. Looking for a solution found this excellent thread which has pointers to other useful resources for installing Oracle on Linux as well.

However, the solution that worked for my particular setup was the following:

yum install libXp