How to install the Oracle 10g Database on LINUX?

How to install the Oracle 10g Database on LINUX

1. Make sure that the Oracle 10g Database was certified for that version of LINUX.

2. Check the Hardware requirements:

1. 512 MB RAM,

2. 1 GB or Twice the size of RAM of swap space,

3. 600 MB of hard disk space in the /tmp directory,

4. At least, 2.5 GB of hard disk space for the Oracle software.

3. Login as the root user on LINUX:

1. Create the oinstall, dba group and the oracle user with optionally the oper group.

1.      # /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall

2.      # /usr/sbin/groupadd dba

3.      # /usr/sbin/groupadd oper

4.      # /usr/sbin/useradd –g oinstall –G dba,oper oracle

5.      # passwd oracle

2. Create a profile .profile or .bash_profile with the following statements.

1.      # if you use the bash shell do the following to get the aliases and functions

2.      if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

3.            . ~/.bashrc

4.      fi

5.      umask 022

6.      PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

7.      LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib

8.      ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle

9.      ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1

10.  ORACLE_SID=mydb

11.  export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORALCE_SID

12.  PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

13.  export PATH

14.  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/i386:

$ -ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/i386/server:

$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib:

$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

15.  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

3. Create the Oracle directory.

1.      # mkdir –p /u01/app/oracle

2.      # chown –R oracle:oinstall /u01

3.      # chmod –R 775 /u01

4. Open the /etc/sysctl.conf and add the following kernel parameter lines to it.

1.      kernel.sem                             = 250 32000 100 128

2.      kernel.shmall                          = 2097152

3.      kernel.shmmax                       = 2147483648

4.      kernel.shmmni                        = 4096

5.      fs.file-max                              = 65536

6.      net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range  = 1024 65000

5. Reboot your server or issue the following command to set the kernel parameters:

1.      # /sbin/sysctl –p

6. Login as the oracle user or su – oracle and install the Oracle product.