Installation guide

Packages Required for Oracle 10gR2 (10.2) Installation

Install following Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RPMs to satisfy dependencies of Oracle software:

# yum install binutils compat-db compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-34-c++ \

compat-libstdc++-33 elfutils-libelf-devel \

gcc gcc-c++ gdb gdbm glibc glibc-common glibc-devel \

ksh libXp libXtst libaio libaio-devel libgcc libgnome \

libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make setarch sysstat unixODBC unixODBC-devel \

util-linux xorg-x11-xinit compat-libstdc++-296

On 64-bit platform, the following 32-bit packages must also be installed:

# yum install glibc-devel.i386 libaio.i386 glibc.i686 libgcc.i386 \

compat-libstdc++-33.i386 openssl.i686 libXp.i386 libXtst.i386

It is recommended to use kickstart for automated installation. Using kickstart allows the user to create a proper-

ly sized swap area and file system layout according to the Oracle best practices.

In a typical situation when Oracle database server needs to be installed on a system with a general purpose, cor-

porate Linux build it is recommended to create an RPM with dependencies for the packages listed above and

post-install script for system tuning. A sample spec-file of such an RPM is can be seen in Appendix A.

Kernel Upgrades

Make sure to install the latest kernel where all proprietary drivers, if applicable, are certified/supported.

Note that proprietary drivers are often installed under /lib/modules/<kernel-

version>/kernel/drivers/addon.

Therefore, when you upgrade the kernel you must ensure that all proprietary modules can be found in the cor-

rect directory so that the kernel can load them.

Kernel Boot Parameters

General

The Linux kernel accepts boot parameters when the kernel is starting. Very often it is used to provide informa-

tion to the kernel about hardware parameters where the kernel would have issues/problems or to supersede de-

fault values.

For a list of kernel parameters, see /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-*/Documentation/kernel-pa-

rameters.txt. This file does not exist if the kernel-doc RPM is not installed.