(OEL 4.7) -bash: sqlplus: command not found after install of 10g R2

Question

Hi all
I'm new to Linux and I would like your help and directions on a few things:
After 2 days of battle with RPM's (i386 vs x86_64) i was finally able to install 10g R2 on OEL 4.7 x86_64 system without any errors.
please check if all these settings are correct and help me how to start sqlplus? or create a database with dbca
I followed all the directions in Doc ID: 339510.1.
During installation i choose this path as the ORACLE_HOME
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/
I did not however installed the default database.
I then ran the two scripts at the end of the installation as root.
Here are my settings:
oracle bash_profile:
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
unset USERNAME
:q
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=/product/10.2.0/db_1;
export ORACLE_HOME
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
here is my oracle env result
[oracle@nycoralp01 /]$ env | grep -i ORACLE
OLDPWD=/home/oracle/oraInventory
USER=oracle
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/oracle
PATH=/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/oracle/bin
HOME=/home/oracle
LOGNAME=oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/product/10.2.0/db_1
here is my echo $ORACLE_HOME result:
[oracle@nycoralp01 /]$ echo $ORACLE_HOME
/product/10.2.0/db_1
Can someone please tell me what did i miss or did not set?
When i try to run sqlplus i get this error
[oracle@nycoralp01 /]$ sqlplus
-bash: sqlplus: command not found
Any help appreciated

Answer 1

I change it in my bash_profile
$ vi ~oracle/.bash_profile
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
unset USERNAME
:q
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1;
export ORACLE_HOME
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
and i'm still getting the same error
-bash: sqlplus: command not found
Is there anything else i'm missing? do i have to restart anything?