4 Replies Latest reply on Mar 4, 2013 2:11 AM by beck

Oracle installation on RHEL 5.8 64 bit ???

beck Mar 2, 2013 10:24 AM

Hi all,

Today, the system admin gave me the server with Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8 64 bit.

I must check necessary packages for Oracle installation 11gR3 64 bit. Bellow oracle installation documents, I can review packages on this server.

Actually, I am similar to RHEL 5.5 or lower versions. On this server, already exists some packages was installed before, but I concern about detail version number (format _8.1 or _8.2 - you can view bold text bellow):

gcc-4.* (Oracle recommends)
     gcc-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (x86_64) --> Installed on this server.
gcc-c++-4.* (Oracle recommends)
     gcc-c++-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (x86_64) --> Installed on this server.
libgcc-4.*
     libgcc-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (i386)
     libgcc-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (x86_64)
libstdc++-4.*
     libstdc++-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (x86_64)
     libstdc++-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (i386)
libstdc++-devel-4.*
     libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-52.el5_*8.1* (x86_64)
unixODBC-2.*
     unixODBC-2.2.11-10.el5 (x86_64)
     unixODBC-2.2.11-10.el5 (i386)
unixODBC-devel-2.*
     unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-10.el5 (x86_64)
     unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-10.el5 (i386)
glibc-2.*
     glibc-2.5-81.el5_*8.2* (x86_64)
     glibc-2.5-81.el5_*8.2* (i686)
     glibc-devel-2.5-81.el5_*8.2* (x86_64)
     glibc-common-2.5-81.el5_*8.2* (x86_64)
     glibc-headers-2.5-81.el5_*8.2* (x86_64)

Someone said to me: Them should is _48, example:
gcc-4.1.2-48.el5 (x86_64)
libgcc-4.1.2-48.el5 (x86_64)
.....

I did not any server with RHEL 5.8 to testing for Oracle installation on it. At this time, I only allowed check necessary pkgs for Oracle installation.

So, I want ask : packages with _8.1 or _8.2 --> Are they good to installation Oracle database on RHEL 5.8 ??

Thanks so much.

1. Re: Oracle installation on RHEL 5.8 64 bit ???

Srini Chavali-Oracle Mar 2, 2013 12:00 PM (in response to beck)

Use the "oracle validated" RPM - Oracle validated rpm on RHEL4? RHEL5?

Requirements for Installing Oracle 11gR2 RDBMS on RHEL (and OEL) 5 on AMD64/EM64T [ID 880989.1]

HTH
Srini
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2. Re: Oracle installation on RHEL 5.8 64 bit ???

beck Mar 3, 2013 1:51 AM (in response to Srini Chavali-Oracle)

I know advantage when use YUM command. But on this server, I meet some errors when use YUM. If you have experience about Oracle installation on RHEL 5.8 (necessary packages), please let me know.
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3. Re: Oracle installation on RHEL 5.8 64 bit ???

Srini Chavali-Oracle Mar 3, 2013 5:20 AM (in response to beck)

What were the errors ? Pl post a link to the instructions you followed for yum.

Srini
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4. Re: Oracle installation on RHEL 5.8 64 bit ???

beck Mar 4, 2013 2:11 AM (in response to Srini Chavali-Oracle)

Hi,

Before, someone edited YUM configuration file (I did not know where !!). And now, when I run any commands with YUM (ex: yum install ..., yum update ...., yum list ...., ), I received same error message:

-------------------------------
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-server-5. Please verify its path and try again
-------------------------------

My /etc/yum.conf had contents:

---------------------/etc/yum.conf-----------------

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1

# Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this.
metadata_expire=1h

# Default.
# installonly_limit = 3

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

Please help.

Thanks.
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