This is shows the details on installing Oracle 11g XE(Express Edition) on Fedora 17 Linux OS.
- Download the file oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip from otn.oracle.com
- Login in as root user:
$ su – root
Password:
[root@srilinux ~]# - Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf and make sure below entries are updated:
# cat /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 2097152
fs.file-max = 6815744
# semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500 - Then run the command sysctl to update the system from sysctl.conf file.
[root@srilinux ~]# /sbin/sysctl -p - Append this to your limits file:
[root@srilinux ~]# cat /etc/security/limits.conf
* hard nofile 65535
* soft nofile 4096 - After updating the above file you would need to reboot your system for the values to take effect.
- Unzip the Oracle 11g Database from the specified directory to a target directory “stage”
[root@srilinux ~]# unzip /run/media/srikanth/20A4B2DEA4B2B61E/OBIEE11g/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm.zip-d stage - Then goto the extracted location and install the .rpm file as show below:
# cd stage/Disk1 - You can run the below command to verify that your oracle rpm file isn’t missing any other dependencies:
[root@srilinux Disk1]# rpm -ivh –test oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
The run the below command as root, to staring installing the rpm onto your system.
[root@srilinux Disk1]# rpm -ivh oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:oracle-xe ########################################### [100%]
Executing post-install steps…
You must run ‘/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure’ as the root user to configure the database. - Then as mention to to the final configuration execute oracle-xe configure:
[root@srilinux Disk1]# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Configuration
