Installing Oracle 12c R1 Database Software on Linux 7

This document explains how to install Oracle 12c Database software on Oracle Linux 6. At the time of writing this document, latest 12c version is 12.1.0.2 which can be downloaded from My Oracle Support using patch search for patch 17694377 (Disk 1 and Disk 2 are needed for Oracle Database software). Otherwise you can also download 12.1.0.1 from www.oracle.com.
For this article, I have extracted the downloaded software under /u02/softwares directory.
You may also find following related documents interesting.

Installing Oracle Linux 6

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InstallingOracle 12cR1 Database on Linux 6

1)
Make sure you have entries in the /etc/host file for the name resolution.

127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost 192.231.231.40 salman1.salman.com salman1

2)
Edit /etc/selinux/config and set value for SELINUX to either “permissive” or “disabled”

SELINUX=permissive

3)
As root user, configure Shared Memory File System. Add following line in /etc/fstab file for shared memory file system. Modify the value of “size” based on the amount of memory you will be using for your SGA

tmpfs                                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   rw,exec,size=8g        0 0

4)
Disable the firewall

[root@salman1 ~]# systemctl start firewalld.service [root@salman1 ~]# systemctl stop firewalld.service [root@salman1 ~]# systemctl disable firewalld.service rm '/etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/firewalld.service' rm '/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service'

5)
Reboot the host

6)
We can perform automatic configuration of the host using “yum” command. If you want to do manual configuration, skip this step and go to next step (Step 7).
Automatic configuration would perform following tasks
- Installation of required RPM packages
- Setup kernel parameters in /etc/sysctl.conf file
- Creation of OS groups (oinstall, dba) and OS user (oracle)
- Setting limits for installation user “oracle”

For Oracle Linux, follow the steps mentioned in the following documents to access the online yum repository.
http://public-yum.oracle.com/

Execute following command to perform all prerequisites automatically..

[root@salman1 ~]# yum install oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall –y

As already mentioned, above command will install all required packages which are needed for grid infrastructure and/or RDBMS software installation. If you also plan to install a 32-bit client on this x86_64 server, you would also need to install 32-bit version of these RPM packages manually.

[root@salman1 ~]# yum install glibc-2.17-36.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install glibc-devel-2.17-36.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libaio-0.3.109-9.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libaio-devel-0.3.109-9.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libXi-1.7.2-1.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libXtst-1.2.2-1.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libgcc-4.8.2-3.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libstdc++-4.8.2-3.el7.i686 [root@salman1 ~]# yum install libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-3.el7.i686

If you want to install form Oracle Linux installation media, use “rpm -i” command to install the packages.
Automatic configuration also sets the required kernel parameters in /etc/sysctl.conf file and also sets OS limits for user oracle.

Automatic configuration would create default OS groups i.e. oinstall and dba (with group ID 54321 and 54322 respectively), and OS user (oracle) with user ID 54321. Reset the password of oracle user

Set passwords for oracle user [root@salman1 ~]# passwd oracle

If you have performed this step; skip next 4 steps (7, 8, 9 and 10)

7)
Install following RPM packages (or latest version) from either yum repository or from Linux 7 media

binutils-2.23.52.0.1-12.el7.x86_64 compat-libcap1-1.10-3.el7.x86_64 gcc-4.8.2-3.el7.x86_64 gcc-c++-4.8.2-3.el7.x86_64 glibc-2.17-36.el7.i686 glibc-2.17-36.el7.x86_64 glibc-devel-2.17-36.el7.i686 glibc-devel-2.17-36.el7.x86_64 libaio-0.3.109-9.el7.i686 libaio-0.3.109-9.el7.x86_64 libaio-devel-0.3.109-9.el7.i686 libaio-devel-0.3.109-9.el7.x86_64 ksh make-3.82-19.el7.x86_64 libXi-1.7.2-1.el7.i686 libXi-1.7.2-1.el7.x86_64 libXtst-1.2.2-1.el7.i686 libXtst-1.2.2-1.el7.x86_64 libgcc-4.8.2-3.el7.i686 libgcc-4.8.2-3.el7.x86_64 libstdc++-4.8.2-3.el7.i686 libstdc++-4.8.2-3.el7.x86_64 libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-3.el7.i686 libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-3.el7.x86_64 sysstat-10.1.5-1.el7.x86_64 unixODBC-2.3.1 Example (yum) [root@salman1 ~]# yum install glibc Example (Linux Media) [root@salman1 ~]# rpm -i glibc Example (Check after install) [root@salman1 ~]# rpm -q glibc glibc-2.17-55.el7.x86_64

8)
Edit /etc/sysctl.conf add following entries to set kernel parameters

fs.file-max = 6815744 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.shmall = 1073741824 kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104 kernel.panic_on_oops = 1 net.core.rmem_default = 262144 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 1048576 fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500

Execute following command after adding above lines

/sbin/sysctl -p

9)
As user root, add OS groups and users.

Add groups [root@salman1 ~]# groupadd -g 54321 oinstall [root@salman1 ~]# groupadd -g 54322 dba [root@salman1 ~]# groupadd -g 54323 oper Add users [root@salman1 ~]# useradd -u 54321 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle Set passwords for oracle user [root@salman1 ~]# passwd oracle

10)
Create a .conf file (file name can be anything) under /etc/security/limits.d directory to set shell limits for oracle user. For example, create file oracleusers.conf with following entries. Alternatively, you can also set the limits in /detc/security/limits.conf. But I would prefer to set under /etc/security/limits.d directory.

# Oracle user oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536 oracle soft nproc 16384 oracle hard nproc 16384 oracle soft stack 10240 oracle hard stack 32768 oracle hard memlock 134217728 oracle soft memlock 134217728

11)
Log in as oracle user and add environmen variables in .bash_profile file.

ORACLE_SID=db12c; export ORACLE_SID ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/db; export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib; export CLASSPATH export TEMP=/tmp export TMPDIR=/tmp

12)
Log in as oracle user using Linux desktop, or you may also use any X server software.

13)
Initiate installation by executing ./runInstaller from the directory where software was unzipped.

$ cd /u02/softwares/database
$ ./runInstaller
Click Next

14)
Click Next 

 

15)
I selected “Install database software only”. You may also select “Create and Configure a database” if you want to create a database during the installation process. Otherwise you can create an Oracle database using DBCA, after the installation.
Click Next

16)
Since this is a non-RAC installation, select “Single instance database installation”, and click Next

17)
Click Next

18)
Click Next (or select appropriate edition you want to install)

19)
Change directories according to your requirement and click Next


20)Click Next. After following screen, next step is “Prerequisite Checks”, resolve any issues if prerequisite checks list any problem by stopping at prerequisite checks screen.

21)
Click Install

22)
Monitor Progress

23)
Execute “root.sh” as root user when prompted. If this is first ever oracle software installation on this server then you would see a prompt that lists 2 scripts to be executed as root, orainstRoot.sh and root.sh. Execute script(s) as root and click OK.

24)
Installation is successful. Click Close