Login once again as root to invoke the changes made to the environment. Note that the oracle-validated RPM package is accessible through the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) which requires a support contract or from the Oracle public yum repository.įirst we needed to configure the Linux machine to be able to connect to the internet using the corporate proxy and we did this by editing the /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh file with some environment variables like FTP_PROXY and HTTP_PROXY

And most importantly, downloads and installs number of packages which are required for the Oracle 11g database software installation while resolving the dependencies between the packages as well.

It sets the hard and soft shell resource limits in /etc/security/nf.

It modifies the kernel parameters in /etc/nf.In this case however, we download and install an RPM package called oracle-validated and the oracle-validated RPM does a number of things for us. When I have tried to install Oracle 11g on Linux, in most cases I have found that the OUI either reports that some packages are missing (typically unixODBC or libaio) or some kernel parameters are not appropriately set. I tried out the procedure listed by the author and thought I’d share this with those who may not be aware of this note and must say thanks to the author Ginny Henningsen. I recently came across this OTN article How I Simplified Oracle Database Installation on Oracle Linux.

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