Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2

(10.2.0) 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.

 Download Software
 Unpack Files
 Hosts File
 Setup

Download Software
Download the following software:

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

 Sun JDK 1.4.2.18

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
 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
2. 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/j
lib
 export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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
 SELINUX=disabled

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