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See the following:

Oracle Database Software Downloads | Oracle Technology Network | Oracle

Previous Database Release Software

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When I go to

edelivery.oracle.com

and do a search with 10.2.0.5

I only get

Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.5.0

Oracle 10g database is no longer available from any legal or public Oracle sources. You have to contact Oracle sales or support.

See e.g. this old thread

Also 10.2.0.x is not supported on Linux 6 - so likely getting hold of the media will be the easy part ;-)

Directly you cannot start 10g installation on rhel 6 , before install

Edit the "/etc/redhat-release" file replacing the current release information (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6 ) with the following:

redhat-4

After installation you can reset it back .(Its just for skipping installer version check skip)

Rasheed_ wrote:

Directly you cannot start 10g installation on rhel 6 , before install

Edit the "/etc/redhat-release" file replacing the current release information (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6 ) with the following:
redhat-4

After installation you can reset it back .(Its just for skipping installer version check skip)

Can you point to a doc where this is the supported method ?

Workaround #2: On Oracle Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the installation will pass the operating system prerequisite checks if you change each Oracle Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Oracle Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in the /etc/redhat-release file. Ensure that you replace the original values in the /etc/redhat-release file after the Oracle installation is complete.

From below oracle doc link

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/relnotes.102/b15659/toc.htm

That applies to EL 5, but not EL 6. EL 6 is way too far ahead regarding software per-requisites. I'm not saying it cannot be done, but it is not supported and has a few other challenges. Perhaps in the case of the OP, the best way is to run 10g under EL 6 inside VirtualBox using OL 5.