Oracle 10g v10.2.0, RHEL 5.3, kernel 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen
Software requirements
After standard system installation and updating, install the following packges:
* compat-libstdc++
* libXp
* libXtst
* gcc
* gcc-c++
* glibc-devel
Users and groups
If the user oracle already exists but you could not use it (e.g., you are using a company Kerberos), you can use different user name. You can also add the user in more groups (-G argument), or set another home.
# groupadd dba
# groupadd oinstall
# useradd -g oinstall -d /home/oracle -G dba oracle
# passwd oracle
Set system limits
To view current limits use sysctl -a. The used values are required minimums.
shmall should be 2097152, shmni 4096, shmmax half the size of physical memory (in bytes). These requirements are usually met by default.
sysctl -w kernel.sem="250 32000 100 128"
net.core.rmem_default=262144
net.core.rmem_max=262144
net.core.wmem_default=262144
net.core.wmem_max=262144
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range="1024 65000"
sysctl -p # reload the changes
Shell profile
Suggested changes to .bashrc:
export PATH=/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin/:$PATH
export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle
export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0
export ORACLE_SID=you_great_SID
Relogin for the changes to take effect.
OS Version
Pretend that you are somebody else in /etc/redhat-release:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
GUI Installer
gunzip 10201_database_linux_x86_64.cpio.gz
cpio -idvm < 10201_database_linux_x86_64.cpio
rm 10201_database_linux_x86_64.cpio.gz
cd database
./runInstaller
Choose Advanced Installation, go with Enterprise Edition, you can let it create general purpose database.
Post Installation
You can login as SYSDBA, create a user and grant them some privileges.
CREATE USER myuser IDENTIFIED BY password DEFAULT TABLESPACE users;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES TO myuser;
