Friday, 25 May 2012

Installation of Oracle RDBMS on Oracle Linux 6

We install usually 2 Oracle products on database environments - RDBMS itself and Grid Control agent. The RDBMS binaries installation actually brings no problems - of course one needs X installation, which may be more than cautious sysadmin would like to install. The Grid agent is other thing - there is number of additional packages to install in order to make the installation process smooth. The best way on Oracle Linux 5 was to install package oracle-validated, which depends on few other packages, which fully cover the agent needs. With Oracle Linux 6 the package, which seems to be needed for that purpose is named oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall (R must be in uppercase). However it seems it is not enough - additionally:
  • yum install libXp.so.6
  • yum install libXt.so.6
  • yum install libXtst.so.6
Despite that another problem is I try to install the agent in 10.2.0.5 version, so must have used -ignoreSysPrereqs option. And now failure - some errors in linking. I will switch to 11.1.0.1.