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  • Writer's picturekyle Hailey

Installing Oracle on RHEL

UPDATE: thanks to Alex Gorbachev for pointing out that Oracle has a public yum for OEL which is compatible with REHEL and Oracle has Oracle certified packages:

Oracle Certified packages:

http://oss.oracle.com/el5/oracle-validated/ http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/extractingfilesrpm-444871.html

Public Yum:

http://public-yum.oracle.com/

 

A small but time consuming LINUX issue:

When installing on RHEL for both 10 and 11, I get errors that the following  libraries are missing

The message is a little misleading as both the i386 and x86_64 versions of libaio have to be intalled

libaio-0.3.106-3.2.i386 libaio-0.3.106-3.2.x86_64 libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.i386 libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.x86_64 sysstat-7.0.2-1.SEL5_2.i386

The last time I installed Oracle on LINUX was almost a year ago and it took me several hours to track this down.  Since then that test machine has been blown away and a long with it my copies of these libraries. Today I tried to  install Oracle 11 on LINUX and again I spent another hour or two trying to track these down.

You should  just run something like:

yum install libaio-devel-0.3.106 yum install sysstat-7.0.2

But if the machine isn’t registered or if for some reason this doesn’t work then its a bit of a bind.

This http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libaio-devel seemed like a good lead on getting the RPMs but the download links didn’t work for me. The source that ended up working for me was

http://www.icewalkers.com/rpm/libaio/fedora-core-6/download/libaio-2305.html

http://www.icewalkers.com/rpm/libaio-devel/fedora-core-6/download/libaio-devel-2306.html

This is fedora but seems to work on RHEL. I’m doing some quick tests and hacking around, so I just want to getting up and running asap.  For production use, it would be wise to get yum registered and working correctly.

I tar’ed up and gziped the rpms here http://oraclemonitor.com/ftp/

in the file   oracle_fed_rpms.tar.gz

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