In this article I'll describe the installation of Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1) on Fedora 7. The article is based on a Fedora 7 (F7 x86) Server Installation with a minimum of 2G swap, secure Linux disabled and the following package groups installed.
Alternative installations may require more packages to be loaded, in addition to the ones listed below.
There are a number of Fedora Core 6 packages that are required to get Oracle installed, linked and running. I'm not suggesting this will result in a stable Linux platform, but it does work.
Download the following software.
Unzip the files.
unzip 10201_database_linux32.zip
You should now have a single directory containing installation files. Depending on the age of the download this may either be named "db/Disk1" or "database".
The "/etc/hosts" file must contain a fully qualified name for the server.
<IP-address> <fully-qualified-machine-name> <machine-name>
Add the following lines to the "/etc/sysctl.conf" file.
kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 4096 # semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 65536 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default=262144 net.core.rmem_max=262144 net.core.wmem_default=262144 net.core.wmem_max=262144
Run the following command to change the current kernel parameters.
/sbin/sysctl -p
Add the following lines to the "/etc/security/limits.conf" file.
* soft nproc 2047 * hard nproc 16384 * soft nofile 1024 * hard nofile 65536
Add the following line to the "/etc/pam.d/login" file, if it does not already exist.
session required pam_limits.so
Disable secure linux by editing the "/etc/selinux/config" file, making sure the SELINUX flag is set as follows.
SELINUX=disabled
Alternatively, this alteration can be done using the GUI tool (Desktop > System Settings > Security Level). Click on the SELinux tab and disable the feature.
Install the following packages.
# From Fedora 7 DVD cd /media/dvd/Fedora rpm -Uvh setarch-* rpm -Uvh --force tcl-* rpm -Uvh compat-db-* rpm -Uvh --force libXau-devel-* # Not available on Fedora 7 DVD, but available from standard yum repository. yum install libXp libaio yum install compat-libstdc++* compat-libf2c* compat-gcc* compat-libgcc*
Create the new groups and users.
groupadd oinstall groupadd dba groupadd oper useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle passwd oracle
Create the directories in which the Oracle software will be installed.
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 chown -R oracle.oinstall /u01
Login as root and issue the following command.
xhost +<machine-name>
Edit the "/etc/redhat-release" file replacing the current release information (Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)) with the following.
redhat-4
Login as the oracle user and add the following lines at the end of the ".bash_profile" file.
# Oracle Settings TMP=/tmp; export TMP TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID=TSH1; export ORACLE_SID ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jre:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then ulimit -p 16384 ulimit -n 65536 else ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 fi fi
Log into the oracle user. If you are using X emulation then set the DISPLAY environmental variable.
DISPLAY=<machine-name>:0.0; export DISPLAY
Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command in the database directory.
./runInstaller
Enter the appropriate ORACLE_HOME and name then continue with the installation.
For a more detailed look at the installation process, click on the links below to see screen shots of each stage.
Edit the "/etc/redhat-release" file restoring the original release information.
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Finally edit the "/etc/oratab" file setting the restart flag for each instance to 'Y'.
TSH1:/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1:Y
For more information see:
Hope this helps. Regards Tim...
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