11.5.10 installation on RHEL as 4.0

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Hi,
Please see if all the steps have been maintained for installation on RHEL as 4.0
Oracle Applications 11.5.10 - Installation Update Notes for Linux x86, Solaris SPARC, MS Windows, HP-UX PA-RISC, HP-Tru64, IBM AIX - B13590-01 [ID 287453.1]
OS: Red hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0
Required Packages and Patches
Legacy Software Development package and X Software Development package
Note: Select these packages from the Package Group Selection screen. If the operating system is already installed, use System Settings > Add/Remove Applications to install these two packages.
The following components will be installed automatically:
compat-db-4.1.25-9
compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3
compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3
compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5
compat-libcwait-2.0-2
compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.7.2
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-23.EL
The following required component must be installed manually:
openmotif-2.1.30-x
Note: For information on downloading the openmotif component, see the instructions at the following URL:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-412.html
Net Service Listeners in Multi-user Installations
To give all users in a multi-user installations write privileges to /tmp/.oracle:
$ chmod 777 /tmp/.oracle
All Linux x86 and Linux x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T) Operating Systems
Kernel Requirements
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 2.6.9-5.EL To determine distribution and version, enter: $ uname -r
glibc Requirements
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 2.3.4-2 To determine installation status, enter: $ rpm -q glibc
Domain Name System (DNS) Resolver Parameters
Two Domain Name System (DNS) resolver parameters (timeout and attempts) are set by default to low values when the operating system is installed. These low values may cause attempted network connections to an Oracle database to fail. If this happens, add or update the following entries to these minimum settings in the /etc/resolv.conf file on each server node:
options attempts:5
options timeout:15
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0 and 4.0 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 and 9
Verifying Host Names
Use the following to verify host name settings:
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.4 and 4.0:
Verify that the /etc/hosts file is formatted as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
<ip_address> <node_name>.<domain_name>
Verify that the /etc/sysconfig/network file is formatted as follows:
HOSTNAME=<node_name>.<domain_name>
If the /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network file exists, remove it.
If you changed any files in the previous steps, restart the system.
Modifying the Number of Open File Descriptors
Open the /etc/security/limits.conf file and change the existing values for "hard" and "soft" parameters as follows. Restart the system after making changes.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0, 4.0, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9:
hard nofile 65535
soft nofile 4096
Modifying Port Range Values
Open the /etc/sysctl.conf file and change the value of net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range as follows. Restart the system after making changes.
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10000 65000
Please note that this range is a recommended range, and may need to be adjusted according to the specific needs of the user's environment in order to avoid port conflicts.
Setting the Environment
Verify that the host name setting is correct. The command should return a fully qualified host name. For example: <host_name>.<domain_name>.
# hostname
For the hugemem kernel, install rpm setarch-1.0-2 or higher. (For up, smp, and boot kernels, omit this step.) This step is not required for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.
# setarch i386
Completing Preinstallation Tasks
Complete these tasks after you set the environment variables and before you begin the installation steps described in Installing Oracle Applications.
Unset the NLS_LANG environment variable, if it is defined prior to installation.
Apply one of these OS library patches: 4198954 (for Red Hat 4.0) or 3006854 (for Red Hat 3.0). You can download these patches from OracleMetaLink.
Restart your system.
groupadd dba
useradd -g dba appltest
useradd -g dba oratest
Completing Postinstallation Tasks
After the installation is complete, perform the following tasks in addition to the ones described in Installing Oracle Applications:
Apply patch 4632932 to all the application tiers, then re-source the applications environment file to refresh the environment variables. This patch is required for setting the values for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL and LD_PRELOAD.
Should be missing kernel parameters and some other utilities like ar,make,gcc etc
Thanks,
SM

Answer 1

Hi,
Please can someone help me to get the Patch 4198954. Why don't you download it from MOS website? I believe no one is supposed to download the patch from MOS and send it to you by email as this violates Oracle support agreement policy.
Thanks,
Hussein