Riccardo Riva

Some days ago I had to install an Oracle 10.2.0 x64 on system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 x64.

I found some problem, and the following is the prerequisites and some tricks to make the setup process works.

Prerequisites packages :

binutils-2.17.50.0.6-2.el5
compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4
compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61(i386)
control-center-2.16.0-14.el5
gcc-4.1.1-52.el5
gcc-c++-4.1.1-52.el5
gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1
glibc-2.5-12
glibc-common-2.5-12
glibc-devel-2.5-12
glibc-devel-2.5-12(i386)
libgcc-4.1.1-52.el5(i386)
libgcc-4.1.1-52.el5(x86_64)
libgnome-2.16.0-6.el5
libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-22.1
libXp-1.0.0-8.i386
libXp-1.0.0-8.x64
make-3.81-1.1
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
util-linux-2.13-0.44.e15.x86_64

Tricks
- Make sure to put in your /etc/hosts the ip address and the name and FQDN name of your server as the folowing example :
192.168.1.1 server.myfactory.local server

- Make sure you have SELINUX disabled, using the following command :
cat /etc/selinux/config | grep SELINUX

- Create some necessary user and group :
groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper
useradd –g oinstall –G dba oracle

- Assing a password to “oracle” user and don’t forget to assign it a usfeul shell, because you must login with “oracle” to an X-Session to run the installer.

Setup Procedure

After checking all the above, you must login as “oracle” to an X-Session (local or remote as you prefer) and run the following command :
runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs

You must use “-ignoreSysPrereqs” because RHEL5 is not in the operative system supported list.
This is not a problem, and you could use that option to avoid installer exit with a warning.

If all prerequisites and tricks is fine, you could now procede with Oracle installation.

Hope this help someone avoid wasting time.

Bye
Riccardo

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