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Installing Oracle Applications Release 12 on Demo Laptop (OEL 5.1)

Installing Oracle Applications Release 12 on Demo Laptop (OEL 5.1)

1. Installed OEL 5.1 on 160GB hard drive: 100MB /boot; 6GB swap; remaining space /

2. Created user applmgr on initial setup

3. Created group dba, assigned group dba to user applmgr, made dba primary (and only) group for applmgr

4. On appslinux, assigned ip address and hostname (200.65.1.57, demolinux) to /etc/hosts
On demolinux, assigned ip address and hostname (200.65.1.56, appslinux) to /etc/hosts

5. On appslinux, edited /etc/exports (as root user) to include demolinux:
/u4   200.65.1.57(rw,sync)

6. Restart nfs service (as root user) on appslinux:
service nfs restart

7. On demolinux (as root user):
mkdir /mnt/u4
mount -t nfs appslinux:/u4 /mnt/u4

8. On demolinux (as root user):
mkdir /oracle
chown applmgr:dba /oracle

9. Load the /mnt/u4/StageR12/startCD/welcome.html into Firefox
Open the Rapid Install installation PDF

10. On demolinux, ensure that /tmp is accessible by all users (chmod 777 /tmp)

11. On demolinux, ensure that required maintenance tools are present:
which ar
which ld
which gcc
which g++
which ksh
which make

12. Check Metalink Doc ID: 402310.1 to ensure

a. Ensure that OS version is supported:
Minimum: Oracle Enterprise Linux: 4.0 – Update 4 or higher (32-bit)
Current: Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 – Update 1 [ok]

b. Ensure that kernel version is supported
Minimum: Oracle Enterprise Linux: 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL
Current: Oracle Enterprise Linux: 2.6.18-53.elPAE [ok]

13. Manually installed the following RPMs:
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm [CD 2]
openmotif22-2.2.3-18.i386 [CD 3]

pdksh
gnome-libs
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.i386 [CD 3]
compat-db-4.2.52-5.1.i386.rpm [CD 3]
xscreensaver
libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.i386.rpm [CD 2]

Troubleshooting Launching Oracle Applications

Problem: Unable to get application to launch.

Solution: Try the following:

Step 1:        Check the hosts file (either /etc/hosts or C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32 DRIVERSETCHOSTS) and ensure that the IP address and host is in the file.

Step 2:        Ensure that the local addresses are bypassed in the browser.

Step 3:        Ensure that the instance is started on the server.