Installation guide
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Requirements
Hardware
For a detailed description of hardware− and space requirements see the generic Oracle Installation
Guide that comes with Oracle 9i for Linux.
Any Intel− or AMD− based PC with a 32bit CPU
At least 256 MB of RAM, more if you use the Java VM in the Oracle database
We recommend at least 4 GB of free disk space for Oracle and a demo database
Software
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
We recommend that during OS installation you select the Default installation option in the SuSE
Linux Enterprise Server 7 software selection screen and go from there.
These are not unbreakable rules. If you know what and why you want to break them it can be
okay to do so.
Must Install:
: Make sure that X−Window is installed and running, or that at least the X−Window
libraries are present for a remote installation.
: You will also need to have the basic developments tools installed, like make, gcc, and
the binutils package.
: To view the Oracle documentation you need a web browser (e.g. Netscape or
Konqueror) and a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader, gv/ghostscript or xpdf).
: You may need to install package pdksh, which provides a Korn shell. Some Oracle
scripts require this shell.
: You should install the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1.8v3 or 1.3.1. SuSE Linux
Enterprise Server comes with JDK 1.1.8v3 in package java (Group Development). Sun’s
JDK 1.3.1 is available on the patch CD. See the Oracle 9i release notes document (a
PDF) for information when to use which JDK version. Different components like BC4J
or the HTTP webserver’s JServ module require different JDK versions.
The Java GUI tools Oracle comes with use their own JRE (Java Runtime Environment)
bundled with Oracle.
Must NOT Install:
O Do not install any webserver, like Apache. Oracle already comes with Apache.
O Do not install OpenLDAP, an LDAP directory server, if you do not plan to use it or if
you plan to use Oracle Internet Directory (OID), which is Oracle’s LDAP service.
O We recommend you do not install any other server software. Production Oracle servers