Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Oracle Installation Issues on Linux

I ran into a couple issues when installing Oracle 10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.

The first problem was the runInstaller would not start the Oracle Universal Installer. The problem ended up being the libXp. Installing libXp-1.0.0.8.i386.rpm solved the problem. The package can be downloaded from http://rpm.pbone.net/.

The second problem occurred during installation where the Network pre-installation check failed due to the /etc/hosts not containing the correct information. Changing the /etc/hosts to match the following format solved the problem.

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.1.115 myhost.mydomain.com myhost


Installing Oracle 9i on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) is not supported by Oracle. However, thanks to nirajkvinit's blog, I was able to install Oracle 9i on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 with success.

http://nirajkvinit.blogspot.com/2008/10/installing-oracle-9i-on-rhel5.html

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