11g R2 (11.2.0.1) INSTALLATION ON OEL 5.

ORACLE 11g R2 ON ORACLE ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5

This document prepared just for informative and learning purposes for beginners. This is
based on a server installation with a minimum of 2G swap.

# root

$ oracle

REQUIRED PACKAGES FOR ORACLE

DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS

GNOME Desktop Environment

APPLICATIONS

Editors

Graphical Internet

DEVELOPMENT

Development Libraries

Development Tools

GNOME Software Development

Java Development

Legacy Software Development

X Software Development

SERVERS

Server Configuration Tools

BASE SYSTEM

Administration Tools

Base

Java

Legacy Software Support (select compat-db)

SYSTEM TOOLS

X Window System

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DISABLE SECURE LINUX BY EDITING THE "/etc/selinux/config" FILE

SELINUX=disabled

ORACLE INSTALLATION PRE REQUISITES

To use the "oracle-validated" package to perform all your prerequisite setup, follow the
instructions at http://public-yum.oracle.com to setup the yum repository for OL, then
perform the following command. All necessary prerequisites will be performed automatically.
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
# rm -f public-yum-el5.repo
# wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-el5.repo
Triggers the Installation of oracle 11g Preinstall & Setup
# yum -y install oracle-validated
Updates System to Currently last Update & Patches.
# yum update
If we have NOT used the "oracle-validated package to perform all prerequisites, we need
to manually install required rpms as per installation doc.
CREATE REQUIRED NUMBER OF GROUPS & USER

# groupadd oinstall
# groupadd dba
# useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle
# passwd oracle
CREATE THE DIRECTORIES , ORACLE SOFTWARE WILL BE INSTALLED.

# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle/

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ORACLE 10G REQUIRED KERNEL PARAMETER SETTINGS

In this location vi /etc/sysctl.conf" file

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
RUN THE FOLLOWING COMMAND
To Set the Current Kernel Parameters without Rebooting the System.

# /sbin/sysctl -p
# /sbin/sysctl -a | grep <param-name> # values can be tested , if we wish to check.
CHANGE vi /etc/pam.d/login FILE & ADD THE FOLLOWING LINE

session required pam_limits.so

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SET THE LIMITS FOR ORACLE USER

in this loction # vi /etc/security/limits.conf

oracle soft

nproc

2047

oracle hard nproc

16384

oracle soft

nofile

1024

oracle hard

nofile

65536

# xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
UNZIP DATABASE SOFTWARE

$ unzip linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip
$ unzip linux.x64_11gR2_database_2of2.zip
We can get a Single directory called "database" containing installation files.
$ cd database
[oracle@SERVER1 database] $ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

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CONFIGURE .bash_profile for oracle user

$ vi .bash_profile
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
EXECUTE .bash_profile as oracle user
$ . .bash_profile
# xhost +

Access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

$ dbca

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11g R2 (11.2.0.1) INSTALLATION ON OEL 5.5

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11g R2 (11.2.0.1) INSTALLATION ON OEL 5.5

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11g R2 (11.2.0.1) INSTALLATION ON OEL 5.5

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