This article presents installation of Oracle 11.2.0.3 on Fedora 17.
Read following article to install Fedora 17 Linux: Install Fedora 17 (for comfort set 2G memory for your virtual machine beffore proceeding with Oracle software installation).
OS configuration and preparation
OS configuration is executed as root. To login as root just execute following command in terminal.
su root
Add groups
--required groups /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 501 oinstall /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 502 dba /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 503 oper
Add user Oracle
/usr/sbin/useradd -u 502 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle
Change password for user
passwd oracle
Add kernel parameters to /etc/sysctl.conf
--kernel parameters for 11g installation kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104 kernel.shmall = 1073741824 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576 fs.file-max = 6815744 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500 net.core.rmem_default = 262144 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 1048586
Apply kernel parameters
/sbin/sysctl -p
Add following line for to set shell limits for user oracle in file /etc/security/limits.conf
--shell limits for users oracle 11gR2 oracle soft nproc 131072 oracle hard nproc 131072 oracle soft nofile 131072 oracle hard nofile 131072 oracle soft core unlimited oracle hard core unlimited oracle soft memlock 50000000 oracle hard memlock 50000000
The “/etc/hosts” file must contain a fully qualified name for the server.
<IP-address> <fully-qualified-machine-name> <machine-name>
For example.
127.0.0.1 fedora fedora.dbaora.com localhost localhost.localdomain
Create .bash_profile for user oracle
# Oracle Settings export TMP=/tmp export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=fedora.dbaora.com export ORACLE_UNQNAME=ORA11G export ORACLE_BASE=/ora01/app/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/db_1 export ORACLE_SID=ORA11G PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; alias cdob='cd $ORACLE_BASE' alias cdoh='cd $ORACLE_HOME' alias tns='cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin' alias envo='env | grep ORACLE' umask 022
Check which packages are installed and which are missing
rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}(%{ARCH})\n' binutils \
compat-libstdc++-33 \
elfutils-libelf \
elfutils-libelf-devel \
gcc \
gcc-c++ \
glibc \
glibc-common \
glibc-devel \
glibc-headers \
ksh \
libaio \
libaio-devel \
libgcc \
libstdc++ \
libstdc++-devel \
make \
sysstat \
unixODBC \
unixODBC-devel
Install missing packages. It’s just example (many in one step):
yum install unixODBC unixODBC-devel sysstat
Create directory structure
mkdir -p /ora01/app chown oracle:oinstall /ora01/app chmod 775 /ora01/app
create ORACLE_BASE directory for oracle
mkdir -p /ora01/app/oracle chown oracle:oinstall /ora01/app/oracle chmod 775 /ora01/app/oracle
Create ORACLE_HOME directory for oracle
mkdir -p /ora01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 chown oracle:oinstall -R /ora01/app/oracle
Disable secure linux by editing the “/etc/selinux/config” file, making sure the SELINUX flag is set as follows. It requires REBOOT to be effective !!!
SELINUX=disabled
Edit the “/etc/redhat-release” file replacing the current release information “Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)” with the following.
redhat release 5
Install database software
Let’s start with database software installation as oracle user.
su - oracle --unizp software unzip p10404530_112030_Linux-x86-64_1of7.zip unzip p10404530_112030_Linux-x86-64_2of7.zip --I defined 4 aliases in .bash_profile of user oracle to make --administration heaven :) [oracle@fedora ~]$ alias envo cdob cdoh tns alias envo='env | grep ORACLE' alias cdob='cd $ORACLE_BASE' alias cdoh='cd $ORACLE_HOME' alias tns='cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin' --run alias command envo to display environment settings envo ORACLE_UNQNAME=ORA11G ORACLE_SID=ORA11G ORACLE_BASE=/ora01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOSTNAME=fedora.dbaora.com ORACLE_HOME=/ora01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 --run alias command cdob and cdoh to check ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME [oracle@fedora ~]$ cdob [oracle@fedora oracle]$ pwd /ora01/app/oracle [oracle@fedora db_1]$ cdoh [oracle@fedora db_1]$ pwd /ora01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 --run installation ./runInstall
1. Uncheck checkbox “I wish to receive security updates via My Oracle Support” and then click “Next” button.
2. Ignore following message and click “Yes” button.
3. Select “Skip software updates” and click “Next” button.
4. Select “Create and configure a database” then click “Next” button.
5. Select “Server Class” then click “Next” button.
6. Select “Single instance database installation” and click “Next” button.
7. Select “Typical Install” and click “Next” button.
8. Enter database name, administration password for user and click “Next” button.
9. Just click “Next” button.
10. Check checkbox “Ignore All” to ignore this error. Then click “Next” button.
11. Just click “Yes” button to continue with installation.
12. Summary screen just before installation. Click “Install” button.
13. Boring installation …
14. I received following error during linking binaries
The fix this error edit $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/lib/ins_emagent.mk, search for the line $(MK_EMAGENT_NMECTL) and replace the line with $(MK_EMAGENT_NMECTL) -lnnz11 then click “Retry” button
15. Database Configuration will start and create database for you.
16. You should see summary screen for your new database. Click “OK” button to continue with installation.
17. In the “middle” of installation you will be asked to run 2 scripts as user root. when scripts are executed just click “OK” button. Installation will proceed.
--execute scripts /ora01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh /ora01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/root.sh
18. Installation completed. Just click “Close” button.
Post installation steps
Edit the “/etc/redhat-release” file to restore original release information.
Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
Edit the “/etc/oratab” file to set restart flag for ORA11G to ‘Y’.
ORA11G:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1:Y
Have a fun 🙂
Tomasz