Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.2.

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Installation On CentOS
Created by: Nguyen Quoc Huy Email: nguyen.quoc.huy@hotmail.com In this article I'll describe the
installation of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.2.0) on CentOS 5. Additional steps may be
necessary when starting with a different base OS installation.
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 Download Software X

 Unpack Files X

 Hosts File X

 Setup X

Download Software
Download the following software:

 Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.2.0) Software X

 Sun JDK 1.4.2.18 X

Unpack Files
Unpack the contents of the file: unzip 10201_database_linux32.zip The installation files unpack into
the current directory (/tmp/oradb/).
Hosts File
The /etc/hosts file must contain a fully qualified name for the server: <IP-address> <fully-qualified-
machine-name> <machine-name>
Set Up
This section shows you how to install Oracle Database 10g R2. It will guide you through the following steps:
 Install Prerequisite package
Create required groups and users

 Create directories storing oracle file

 Set environment for user oracle
 Configure Linux Kernel Parameter
 Set shell limits for user oracle
 Disable SElinux
 Install Oracle

1. Install Prerequisite package

Depending on the products that you intend to install, verify that the following software is installed on the
system

 Java Runtime Environment j2re-1.4.2.19

 make-3.81

 binutils-2.17.50.0.6

 gcc-4.1.1

 libaio-0.3.106

 libaio-devel-0.3.106

 libstdc++-4.1.1

 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125

 sysstat-7.0.0

 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3

 libgcc-4.1.1

 libstdc++-devel-4.1.1

 unixODBC-2.2.11

 unixODBC-devel-2.2.11

 pdksh-5.2.14-30

 openmotif21-2.1.30-11
 2. compat-db-4.1.25-9

 compat-glibc-7.x-2.2.4.32.6

 compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.128

 control-center-2.8.0-12

 setarch-1.6-1

 libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5

You want to check whether the packages are installed or not, run the following command: # rpm -q make
binutils gcc libaio libaio-devel libstdc++ elfutils-libelf-devel sysstat compat-
libstdc++ libgcc libstdc++-devel unixODBC-2.2.11 unixODBC-devel To install the package, run
command: # yum –y install libXp

Create required groups and users

Depending on the Oracle software being installed on this system, you need to create operating groups and
users. The groups and user required to create are dba, oinstall group and oracle user.

To create these groups and user, enter the following command with user root:
# groupadd oinstall # groupadd dba # useradd -m -g oinstall -G dba oracle # passwd
oracle Check user oracle is belong to oinstall and dba group: # id oracle uid=501(oracle)
gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(dba)

3. Create directories storing oracle files

The system need directory to store data file, configuration. You create the folder /u01 and assign right to it
# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0 # chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app #
chmod -R 775 /u01/app
4. Set environment for user oracle
Log into the oracle user. If you are using X emulation then set the DISPLAY environmental variable:
DISPLAY=<machine-name>:0.0; export DISPLAY
Edit file /home/oracle/.bash_profile and insert the following line:

#environment for oracle ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle

ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 ORACLE_SID=fsrvorcl PATH=$PATH:
$ORACLE_HOME/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib
 export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
SELINUX=disabled
CLASSPATH

5. Configure Linux Kernel Parameter

Using gedit to add below information to file /etc/sysctl.conf
#This lines is for Oracle Installation kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax =
536870912 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max =
6553600 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_max =
262144

Checking result, enter command:

#sysctl –p
6. Set shell limits for user oracle
To improve the performance of the software on Linux system, you must increase the following shell limits for
the oracle user.
As root, edit file /etc/security/ limits.conf and insert some text before # End of file

oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536 oracle soft
nproc 2047 oracle hard nproc 16384
Verify file /etc/pam.d/system-auth to check the existing of two following lines:
session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so session required
pam_limits.so
If you don’t see the first line, insert it.
7. Disable the SElinux
Edit file /etc/selinux/config, find SELINUX and change it to

8. Install Oracle
 The oracle 10gR2 is compatible with some linux :Red Hat Enterprise 3, 4 but not CentOS 5. While
installing oracle, the error will prompt in installation check. You need to edit file /etc/redhat-release and
change its content:
redhat-4

 Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command in the Oracle source directory:

./runInstaller
 On installation method screen, choose Basic Installation. Check the Oracle home location and installation
type. Select option Create Starter Database
Enter the database name fsrvorcl and password fsrvorcl

 Click Next on Specify Inventory directory and credentials

 Oracle app check the specific Prerequisite checks. Click Next.

 On Summary screen, all

components will be installed. Click
Next.

 Oracle installation is in progress. Waiting for completion

 Creating Starter database is in progress

 Creating database is finished. Click Ok

 Configure assistants continues to setup. Execute Configuration scripts dialog prompts to run 2 scripts, enter
the following command

$ su - root # /u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh #
/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/root.sh # exit # exit
<- close terminal
Click Ok

 Click Exit on End of Installation screen to complete.

 Open Oracle Enterprise Manager to view status of created database fsrvorcl