Oracle Analytics Server 2025: Installation Error - clientonlyinstall makefile

Chad Williams

While installing Oracle Analytics Server 2025, got this error during the setup. This is on RHEL9, which according to the Oracle certification page is ok. Has anyone else encountered this? Probably going back to RHEL8 otherwise.

RanaAshutosh-Oracle

Installing compat-libpthread-nonshared-2.28-225.el8.x86_64 package should solve the issue. Refer:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/fusion-middleware/12.2.1.4/sysrs/system-requirements-and-specifications.html#GUID-B648EA24-ABB4-42CA-B8F2-4B535D5EC8DB

Linux Operating System Requirements 

Gianni Ceresa

Thanks Steve for the link, my MOS search skills weren't working when I tried to find that info.

@User_JJ05H , yes, you need all of those. Some aren't patches like the JDK, but the rest is required.

They aren't OAS patches, they are all the patches applicable to WebLogic and FMW 12.2.1.4, you can install all those before to configure OAS (after installing the binaries: so, you install JDK, FMW, OAS, install all those patches, configure OAS).

FMW 12.2.1.4 is "quite old", and that's why over the years there are more and more patches that are needed to keep your environment fully protected.

Right now there isn't an OAS 2025 bundle patch, which maybe the one you refer to related to your OAS 2022. An OAS 2025 bundle patch will probably be released in 3 months or so.

But even then, patching OAS means patching the whole stack: WebLogic & FMW and OAS. If you don't patch WebLogic & FMW, you will maybe not see issues, because it's mostly security patches or patches for pieces of FMW that you don't really touch with your daily OAS usage. While the OAS bundle patch directly impact bugs that are visible and you can experience in OAS itself.
Still, the good practice is to patch everything, the whole stack, to stay safe.

SteveF-Oracle

Hi Chad,

Welcome to the Oracle Analytics community!

The issue could be a missing compatibility package that is not allowing the database client dynamically relink. The make.log may include more details.

Did you apply the infrastructure patches from Doc ID 2832967.2 ?
If not, please apply them, then re-try.

I have not had an opportunity to install on OL9/RHEL 9, but our QA team passed the release on that OS.

Thanks for posting your question.

Gianni Ceresa

Not answering the original question, but to confirm what Steve said: it does install fine on OL9 (I did a number of silent installs as I was creating a docker image).

There is a required package that was "challenging" to find for OL9, and I believe it's the same for RHEL9, because it has been removed, I had to take it from the OL8 repo. It's a FMW 12.2.1.4 requirement, a number of products having this requirements (Oracle Database 19c, Oracle EM etc.) have MOS documents providing a patch to solve the missing package for OL9. Couldn't find anything for OAS, therefore I took the package from the OL8 repo. That package is compat-libpthread-nonshared.

SteveF-Oracle

Many Thanks for sharing that @Gianni Ceresa!
This package installation will also apply to SUSE Linux 15.

I think the document you are referring to is:
Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4.0 Support with OL/RHEL9 (Doc ID 2936471.1)

We can work to get this more clearly documented for OAS 2025

Chad Williams

Thanks for the info everyone.

To be clear, I did not encounter any issues when installing FMW. This happened during the OAS 2025 install.

We pulled in the package Gianni suggested, and am going to try do a fresh install this morning.

Also, the language on this page feels a little confusing, so I'm not sure what all patches need to be applied for OAS 2025.

For my current install (running OAS 2022), we just did the bundle patch. Are they saying there is no bundle available for OAS 2025)?

Chad Williams

Was able to successfully install OAS 2025 after bringing in the missing package/library.

Gianni Ceresa

Great to hear!

One thing you can "fix" now that you are done installing:

https://community.oracle.com/products/oracleanalytics/discussion/25001/oas-2025-log-could-not-be-retrieved-error-when-clicking-view-log-in-administration-manage-sessions

You can either follow the resolution posted there or just install jqin your environment, one of the two and the logs in Manage Sessions will be visible.

Chad Williams

Also, working on trying to change my profile name. Have updated it, but not showing. Sorry about that. Don't mean to be impersonal.

SteveF-Oracle

We have taken a parallel approach to the original posted issue:

1. Promoted Support note: Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) Installation Fails With Error 'Invoking Target 'ClientOnlyInstall' in Makefile /bi/ldap/lib/ins_ldap.mk/ (Doc ID 3077860.1)
2. An OAS documentation enhancement to the installation guide to clarify the system requirements and specifications that are listed in the FMW Guide here: Linux Operating System Requirements, including the missing package for this issue.
   
   
   

Are they saying there is no bundle available for OAS 2025)?

OAS 2025 was released GA in March 2025, so the only requirements from a CPU perspective are from the January 2025 patch releases which apply to the FMW infrastructure portion of the technology stack. The next CPU/Bundle patches are scheduled for April 2025, but I would not expect any bundle patch for OAS 2025 being so close to the GA release until July 2025. Of course, if there are immediate reproducible defects, then one-off patching is still available.

Thanks for your feedback, we can try to improve it.