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25 July 2006

Installation Oracle on Suse Linux Enterprise 10

How neat is Suse!

I downloaded the DVD SLES10 on Novell.com. At the installation time, appart from Gnome, Development, X Window, there are a few new categories. One of them is called Oracle Database, and guess what, it installs all what I needed for Oracle. It creates an oracle account, with oinstall as primary group and dba as secondary group, it sets usefull things like ORACLE_HOME.

Ok, let's unlock the account
chltlxlsc1:~ # usermod -s /bin/bash oracle
chltlxlsc1:~ # passwd oracle
Changing password for oracle.
New Password:
Reenter New Password:
Password changed.


Ok, let's install. SLES10 is not recognized as a certified OS yet. The DISPLAY thing has to be manually set too.


oracle@chltlxlsc1:~> ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9,
redhat-4, UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
Failed <<<<


>>> Ignoring required pre-requisite failures. Continuing...


this is one of the friendliest installation I have ever made...

8 Comments:

Blogger Alex Gorbachev said...

Or you can change a list of supported OS's in the distribution in one file - don't remeber which one. Let me know if interested and couldn't find it.

25/7/06 13:49  
Blogger Laurent Schneider said...

yes, if you install from a read-writable media, you should be able to edit install/oraparam.ini
thanks for your comment

25/7/06 14:42  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yep, this one. And for readonly media it's possible to use option "-paramFile".

25/7/06 14:59  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow, that sounds awesome... can some one provide a screenshot of that installation screen? I want to see it with my own eye (-:

25/7/06 18:20  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Heh... Right. I remember that installing 8i and 9i on Suse 7 Pro wasn't that friendly.
Anyway - still running there happily! :)

28/7/06 21:45  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello there,

I installed Oracle 10 on Fedora Core 5. Installed fine, but now I cannot start sqlplus, Isqlplus. I dont where is Oracle.
There is something wrong with the env, I think. Need help. Thanks. Merci d avance.

Here is the .bashprofile.

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
unset USERNAME
# Oracle Settings
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=orcl; export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM
PATH=/usr/sbin:$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
#LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1; export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then
if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then
ulimit -p 16384
ulimit -n 65536
else
ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536
fi
fi
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_SID=orcl

13/8/06 01:28  
Blogger Laurent Schneider said...

what is your error message?
you can have a look at puschitz.com for detailed instruction for fedora

13/8/06 11:16  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks for your help.

Regards,
Peter

7/11/06 16:06  

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