Step by Step installing Oracle 11g R2 on OEL 5.

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Posted by Kamran Agayev A. on March 21, 2011 In this step by step tutorial Im going to show you the installation of Oracle 11gR2 on OEL 5.5 As in every my step by step and video tutorials, I use VMware virtual machine, so here also I start with creating a virtual machine P.S. Actually I was preparing this tutorial for CentOS, but somehow mixed .iso images So the name of the virtual machine appears as CentOS but the installation is made on OEL. However, you can try the same tutorial for CentOS as well

Click Next

Select Typical and click Next

Select Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as an OS version and click next

Provide the name of virtual machine and specify the location and click next

Select Use bridged networking and click Next

Specify the size of the virtual machine and click Finish

Delete Floppy, USB Controller and Sound Adapter devices, set Memory to 1024 Mb, mount ISO image of the OEL 5.5 OS and click OK

Click Power on button to start the virtual machine

Click enter

Select Skip button

Click Next

Select Installation language and click next

Select the keyboard and click next

Click on Yes

Click Next

Click on YES to remove the partition and click next

Click Next

Select the country and click next

Provide the password of the root user and click next

To install required packages for Oracle installation select Customize now and click Next

Desktop Environments GNOME Desktop Environment Applications Graphical Internet Development Development Libraries Development Tools GNOME Software Development Java Development Legacy Software Development X Software Development (Select libxpdevel and openmotif) Servers Server Configuration Tools Web Server Windows File Server Base System Administration Tools

Base Java Legacy Software Support (select compat-db) System Tools (select sysstat) X Window System

Click Next to start the installation

Click on Reboot button

Click Forward

Choose the first option and click Forward

As we use the virtual machine for testing purpose, disable the firewall and click Forward

Disable Selinux and click Forward

Click Forward

Specify the time and date and click Forward

We dont need to create a user so click Forward

Click Finish button to finish the installation of OEL

Login with the root user

From VM menu, select Install VMWare tools

If the vmware installation cd doesnt appear automatically, Eject the previous cd (installation of OEL), doublt click on Computer and double click on Cd-rom device. This will initialize the vmware tools cd

Double click on .rpm package

Click on Apply to start the installation

After you set all configurations, open new terminal and run vmware-config-tools executable and finish the installation of vmware tools

Now lets create a user and groups for Oracle installation

Change the /etc/sysconfig.conf file to add (change) kernel parameters that are required for Oracle installation The file should be as follows:
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 kernel.sysrq = 0 kernel.core_uses_pid = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 kernel.msgmnb = 65536 kernel.msgmax = 65536 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 6815744 fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500 net.core.rmem_default = 1048576 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 1048576

To make the active in the current session, run /sbin/sysctl -p command

Change /etc/pam.d/login file and add the followingn line:

Change /etc/security/limits.conf and add the following lines:

Create necessary directories for Oracle home

Change the entry of .bash_profile file of the oracle user and add following lines: vi /home/oracle/.bash_profile
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

Now copy downloaded oracle installation files to the /tmp directory

Switch to the /tmp directory and unzip both files with oracle user. This will create a new folder called database

Logout from root user, login with oracle, switch to the /tmp/database directory and run installation by running the following executable
cd /tmp/database ./runInstaller

Select Create and configure a database and click next

Select the first option and click Next

Provide the name of the database and the password and click next

Specify the folder for the inventory directory and click Next

In the prerequisite check we was informed that we need to install three packages as well. So mount the .iso file of the OEL installation, switch to the Server folder

Install all three packages with rpm -Uvh command as its shown above

Click on Check Again button and youll see that those notifications are disappeared. Check Ignore all checkbox and click Next

Click Finish button to start the installation

DBCA tools automatically will start to create the database named mydb

After all, the installation finished successfully. Get the url of the database control

Open a web browser and paste that url to the address field. Click or you can add an exception link

Click on Add Exception button

Click Get Certificate and Confirm Security Exception buttons

Provide the password for sys user and password, select SYSDBA and click Login button

Switch to the installation page and run both shell scripts with root user

Open a new terminal, export ORACLE_SID variable and connect to the database I hope by following my step by step instruction, youll also install Oracle 11gR2 on OEL successfully Like Be the first to like this post. This entry was posted on March 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm and is filed under Administration. Tagged: 11g, 11gR2, centos, install oracle, linux. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

27 Responses to Step by Step installing Oracle 11g R2 on OEL 5.5

Ivan Kartik said

Maybe Im blind but this definitely does not look as Centos 2.

Nesimi said
March 21, 2011 at 3:01 pm

Thanks Kamran teacher. 3.

Kamran Agayev A. said

Hi Ivan. This is OEL, as Ive mixed .iso images of OEL and Centos and thus named vmwware machine as Centos while the installation was on OEL I hope theres no big difference between installing Oracle on both OS 4.

Yogesh Twari said

Bookmarked !! Thanks a lot. 5.

Victor said
March 24, 2011 at 8:36 pm

Hello again Kamran: Congratulations on the 11gR2 OEL tutorial! I have waited for it & now it is here. I will be spending some time here to get everything right. Thanks again. 6.

Victor said
March 26, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Karam: I am noticing that after you make the changes to the /etc/security/limits.conf file, in the next step you are logged in as oracle@localhost:/home/oracle & no longer root@localhost:~. After changing the /etc/security/limits.conf file, should one reboot machine and login as oracle & not as root? 7.

Kamran Agayev A. said

You dont need to reboot. You can change the user to using su oracle and continue the installation 8.

fritz said
April 1, 2011 at 6:38 pm

when i connect with ssh to the server, the ulimits are not set correctly, only when doing a su. ive set limits.conf, checked, pam config, and sshd_config, everything looks fine. so, whats wrong? thx 9.

Kamran Agayev A. said

Dear Fritz To change those configurations you need to connect to the server with a root user 10.

Iss said
April 9, 2011 at 11:00 pm

Hello Kamran, Once again a remarkable job. I have learned a lot from your tutorials. its very easy to follow and very precise. keep up the good work thanks 11.

Victor said
April 21, 2011 at 3:50 am

Hello Karam: I am at the final step of this installation, and everything has worked perfectly up to this last step, including OEM. After I open a new terminal, export ORACLE_SID variable and connect to the database:

[oracle@localhost ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba bash: sqlplus: command not found Contents of my .bash_profile file: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH I also changed this to: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin export PATH export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH After I got the bash: sqlplus: command not found message in terminal, & got the identical message again. My software location is: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 I executed the following configuration scripts as root user: /u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh /u01/home/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/root.sh Where did I go wrong? Regards

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Victor said
May 5, 2011 at 6:19 am

**UPDATE** Created a second installation successfully. USED: Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.06 Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle 11gR2 13.

santosh said
May 16, 2011 at 5:25 am

Hi Kamran, Thanks much for detailed explanation, I didnt find the OEL in ISO image format to download on edelivery.oracle.com site, where can I donload ISO image for OEL ? Also is there anyway to install from OEL from Zipfiles (disks) which I downlaoded to my laptop ( not burned to CDs ) Please guide me. Thanks

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Kamran Agayev A. said

Dear Santosh Check the following link to download OEL : https://edelivery.oracle.com/linux Moreover, install Vmware as Ive shown and mount the downloaded .ISO file to the vmware. In that case you dont need to burn it Good Luck! 15.

sai said
May 30, 2011 at 9:59 pm

Hi Kamran, I have unzipped both the zip folders of 11gr2 software into single folder database. When I am trying to install the Oracle Software I am getting the following error Unable to find the file /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/owb/external/oc4j_applications/applications/WFALSNRSVCApp.ear Can you please guide me how to solve this issue.

Thanking you in advance Regards, Sai 16.

Kamran Agayev A. said

Dear Sai Check the following link: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=971703 17.

Kamran Agayev A. said

Hi Saj This is because you didnt extract both zip files under the same directory. Check it again and let me know 18.

ST said
June 2, 2011 at 2:28 am

Dear Kamran,

I agree with most people who posted here. Your tutorial is precise and easy to follow. thanks for sharing the knowledge. We have CentOS4.8 running in a VM. I have installed Oracle 10g (10.2.0.1.0) on this Linux CentOS4.8 virtual machine following your Oracle 10g install guide on CentOS. It worked beautifully. Now, On the same box, I just installed Oracle 11g (11.2.0.2.0) following this guide you wrote. In the end, it says Oracle has been installed successfully. However, when I tried to start the EMConsole, I did emctl start dbconsole OC4J Configuration issue. /opt/oracle/oraclehome_112/db_1/oc4j/j2ee/OC4J_DBConsole_myhostname_p not found. where p is the instance name. and this directory, OC4J_DBConsole_myhostname_p, does not exist on the file system. My setup: Oracle 10g resides in its oracle_home, which is different from 11gs oracle_home. When installing 11g, I have chosen the option Create the startup database and I have created same database (instance = p), running on the same port 1521 (as the instance installed under 10g); however, during my install of 11g, I did shutdown oracle 10g completely (including the listener, sqlplus and EM console). for 11g, I can sqlplus /nolog SQL>conn / as sysdba; SQL>startup; SQL>select status from v$instance; OPEN SQL>select * from v$version; Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production listener is up and running. The only thing that fails is that Enterprise Manager could not be started.

Do you off the top of your head know what might be causing my issue? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. thanks, ST 19.

ST said
June 3, 2011 at 6:16 pm

Kamran, Dont worry about it. I resolved it. I did ./emca -deconfig dbcontrol db -repos drop ./emca -config dbcontrol db -repos create then, I could start dbconsole fine. thanks ST 20.

Neeraj Vasudeva said

June 5, 2011 at 8:07 am

Nice tutorial, overall looks like not much changed from 10g installation to 11g except for some minor changes. Overall good job, though would recommend a small thing.. may be u can type the instruction above the screenshot, instead of typing it below screenshot. 21.

Kamran Agayev A. said

Dear Neeraj, thank you for the feedback! 22.

yunussYunus SIMSEK said

Dear Kamran, Thank you for this priceless tutorial, I have successfully installed both OEL 5 and Oracle 11gR2 into Oracle Virtualbox., but my question is how am I gonna make Oracle 2 start atomically with Linux. because last time I restart to my system and I couldnt started Oracle database. Thank you again. 23.

Kamran Agayev A. said

June 23, 2011 at 9:03 am

Dear Yunus, check my following blog post and replace commas when you copy/paste the code from wordpress: http://kamranagayev.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/automatically-startup-and-shutdown-database-in-linux-os/ 24.

Paracha said
July 26, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Xelent 25.

Zayad said
August 16, 2011 at 12:11 am

Thanks Kamran for installation steps it was helpful I am getting some package related error can you let me know from where can I download the package and steps to apply them as i am completely new to linux environment I am installing it on Oracle Enterprise Linux.Pls see below package error Checking for sysstat-7.0.0; Not found. Failed <<<< Checking for compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3; found compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61-i386. Passed Checking for libgcc-4.1.1; found libgcc-4.1.2-48.el5-i386. Passed Checking for libstdc++-devel-4.1.1; found libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-48.el5-i386. Passed Checking for unixODBC-2.2.11; Not found. Failed <<<< Checking for unixODBC-devel-2.2.11; Not found. Failed <<<< Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<< Problem: Some packages required for the Oracle Database 11g to function properly are missing (see above). Recommendation: Install the required packages before continuing with the installation.

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Zayad said
August 16, 2011 at 4:54 pm

I have resolved it no need to reply Thanks Kamran for your steps in installation 27.

Zayad said
August 18, 2011 at 7:26 pm

Hello Kamran, I am unable to resolve the below error for last 2 days can you pls help Error Checking Network Configuration requirements Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Not executed <<<< Recommendation: Oracle supports installations on systems with DHCP-assigned public IP addresses. However, the primary network interface on the system should be configured with a static IP address in order for the Oracle Software to function properly. See the Installation Guide for more details on installing the software on systems configured with DHCP. My etc\hosts file is 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 192.168.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

network-scripts\etho DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none HWADDR=00:1E:0B:C8:24:78 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=192.168.0.1 USERCTL=no PEERDNS=yes GATEWAY=255.255.255.0 IPV6INIT=no