Oracle 10 on Slackware 10

Oracle does not support Slackware Linux. However you may find these notes useful for your education.

Create Linux Groups

groupadd oinstall

groupadd dba

Create the Oracle User

useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle

passwd oracle

Setting Shared Memory

Add these line to the /etc/sysctl.conf

kernel.shmall = 2097152

kernel.shmmax =2147483648

kernel.shmmni = 4096

kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128

fs.file-max = 65536

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000

Create Oracle Directories as the root user

mkdir /u01/app/oracle

mkdir /u01/app/oracle/product

mkdir /u01/app/oracle/product/10.0.1.0.2

chown -R oracle.oinstall /u01/app/oracle

mkdir /home/oracle

chown -R oracle.oinstall /home/oracle

Trick Oracle 10 Installer

As root create the file /etc/redhat-release and add this line

redhat-3

Down Rev BinUtils

I downloaded binutils-2.10.1.tar.gz from :

http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/binutils/?C=M;O=D

I installed it as follows:

# tar -xzvf binutils-2.10.1.tar.gz

# cd binutils-2.10.1

# ./configure

# make

# make install                          # as root

Next run these commands as root

# cd /usr/bin

# mv ld ld.new

# cp /usr/local/bin/ld ./

This temporarily replaces ld 2.11 with ld 2.10.

Note: I still get a few link errors during the Oracle install which I just clicked continue when they occured.

Setting the Shell limits for the Oracle user

Add the following lines to the /etc/security/limits.conf file:

*    soft  nproc    2047

*    hard   nproc     16384

*    soft   nofile    1024

*    hard  nofile    65536

Each line follows this format:

*<Tab><Tab>soft<Tab>nproc<Tab<Tab>2047

Set Oracle Environments  

As the oracle user in the .profile  in /home/oracle.  

# Oracle Environment

export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.0.1.0.2

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

export ORACLE_SID=test

export ORACLE_TERM=xterm

#export TNS_ADMIN= Set if sqlnet.ora, tnsnames.ora, etc. are not in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN;

export ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

# Set shell search paths

export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

# CLASSPATH:

CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib

CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib

export EDITOR=vi

set -o vi

PS1='$PWD:$ORACLE_SID >'

If [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then

   If [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then

   ulimit -p 16384

  ulimit -n 65536

 else

  ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536

 fi

fi

Reboot the machine!

System Check

After the reboot you should check the memory parametes as root using these commands:

Review the current semaphore parameter values in the sem file by using the cat utility.

# cat  /proc/sys/kernel/sem

You can check the shmmax parameter with:

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

The reboot and sysctl.conf changes this to 2,147,483,648, but you can go as high as 2.7GB.

As the Oracle user try a few commands like these to make sure you enviroment is set correctlly

# echo $ORACLE_SID

# echo #ORACLE_HOME

You decide. Oracle patch 3006854

I download it and ran it (the Red hat version) Not sure if it helpped or hurt,

Install Oracle

Before you begin

You should have the following download this file from otn.oracle.com

ship.db.cpio.gz

Create an install directory and unpack your Oracle images

I created a directory /u01/app/oracle/100102install and copied the image there.

Run this command:

gunzip ship.db.cpio.gz

Then extract the cpio archive using this command:

cpio -idmv < ship.db.cpio

Start runInstaller as the oracle user

I changed the directory to Disk1 and ran the program by typing this ./RunInstaller

Answers to questions during the install:

Inventory Directory : I hit return for the defaults

Privileged Operating System Groups: dba and dba

I did produce two or three link errors starting ins_rdbms.mk

I clicked continue. I was able to configure  and use everything fine.

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