11.5.10R2 on 64bit OEL5

Question

Has anyone successfully installed 11.5.10.2 on 64bit OEL5?
I know that it is not certified for 64bit OEL5.
But I have to test the upgrade of 11i to R12 and I do not have a 32 bit machine.
Any comments?
Thanks,
Sean

Answer 1

Sean,
I created a 64-bit OEL 5.3 VM last night and completed the install of 11.5.10.2 on it. If you complete the following steps on OEL 5.3 64-bit, 11.5.10.2 will install to completion without error:
Oracle Applications Installation Update Notes, Release 11i (11.5.10.2)
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=316806.1
Install the following non-standard packages:
The following packages are not part of the OEL 5 or RHEL 5 distribution media and must be installed manually:
* compat-libstdc++-egcs-1.1.2-11
* compat-libcwait-2.1-11
* compat-oracle-el5-1.0-51
* openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL51
* binutils-2.152
The following packages must be installed from the OEL 5 or RHEL 5 distribution media:
* libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
* compat-libgcc-296-2.96-138
* compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
* compat-db-4.2.52-5.1
Comment out the /lib/libcwait.so line from /etc/ld.so.preload.
For Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 customers, the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable should be unset before starting the installation. The installation fails when the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable is set by the adgetlnxver.sh file during the course of the installation. Patch 6365595 contains the fix for adgetlnxver.sh file. The procedure below is a guideline for replacing the adgetlnxver.sh file in the Oracle Applications 11i shiphome.
1. Download the patch 6365595 from OracleMetalink.
2. Follow the Oracle Applications Installation guide and set up the stage area.
3. Set the STAGE_TOP environment variable to the top level directory of the stage area that contains the subdirectories startCD, oraApps, oraDB, oraiAS and oraAppDB. Make sure that the stage area is read writable.
# export STAGE_TOP=/stage/software/stage11i10.2
# export PATCH_TOP=/stage/software/stage11i10.2/oel5rpms/6365595
4. Create the following directories in the stage area.
# mkdir -p $STAGE_TOP/oraDB/Disk3/db/stage/appsutil/bin
# mkdir -p $STAGE_TOP/oraApps/Disk5/appl/stage/bin
5. Copy the adgetlnxver.sh file in the patch 6365595 to the following directories created in earlier step.
# cp -p $PATCH_TOP/ad/bin/adgetlnxver.sh $STAGE_TOP/oraDB/Disk3/db/stage/appsutil/bin
# cp -p $PATCH_TOP/ad/bin/adgetlnxver.sh $STAGE_TOP/oraApps/Disk5/appl/stage/bin
6. Update the zip archive with the fix (adgetlnxver.sh file).
# cd $STAGE_TOP/oraDB/Disk3/db/stage
# zip -u dboh0_appsutil appsutil/bin/adgetlnxver.sh
# cd $STAGE_TOP/oraApps/Disk5/appl/stage
# zip -u ad_CORE bin/adgetlnxver.sh
For Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 only :
# ln -s /usr/bin/ld215 /usr/bin/ld
Download and apply the OS library patch 6078836 from OracleMetaLink and create the following symbolic link:
# ln -s /usr/lib/libdb.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb.so.3
# Verify that the host name setting is correct. The command should return a fully qualified host name. For example: <host_name>.<domain_name>.
# hostname -f
get a 32 bit shell:
linux32 bash
Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) - Installation Requirements for the Red Hat 3.0 Linux (AMD64/EM64T)
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=269557.1
Change the gcc call from
exec /usr/bin/gcc34 -static-libgcc -B/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/ "$@"
to
exec /usr/bin/gcc34 -m32 -static-libgcc -B/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/ "$@"
Do the same for g++
add the following to .bash_profile for oracle and applmgr users and execute in the root session doing the install:
export LD_PRELOAD32=/lib/libcwait.so
export KSH_VERSION='PD KSH'
export LDEMULATION='elf_i386'
./rapidwiz
Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system......
Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface.....
[root@oel53ebs64 rapidwiz]# /stage/software/stage11i10.2/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/jre/Linux/1.4.2/bin/jre: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
For Oracle Enteprise Linux and Red Hat Enteprise Linux 5 Update 3 (5.3), users will see a failure when running Rapid Install. Users must edit the file $STAGE_TOP/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/bin/runWizard.sh and comment out lines 122-125, as in:
# if test "$exit_code" == "0" ; then
# LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
# export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
# fi
[root@oel53ebs64 rapidwiz]# ./rapidwiz
Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system......
Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface.....
[root@oel53ebs64 rapidwiz]# Database logfile - /lv01/oracle/prod/proddb/9.2.0/appsutil/log/prod_oel53ebs64/08310248.log
These utilities need to be accessible on your system in order to do administrative tasks.
command : /stage/software/stage11i10.2/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/bin/adchkutl.sh
Checking for make... found - /usr/bin/make
Checking for ld... found - /usr/bin/ld
Checking for cc... found - /usr/bin/cc
Checking for ar... found - /usr/bin/ar
Checking for ksh... found - PD KSH
Utility check completed successfully
System Utilities Availability test has succeeded
Regards,
-Michael