Oracle 10g Express on Fedora 14 64-bit howto

Question

I wanted to test Oracle 10g XE using VMware and Fedora 14 and found the installation instructions form Oracle somewhat outdated and confusing. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25329_01/doc/install.102/b25144/toc.htm. Here are my installation notes - perhaps someone will find them helpful.
h3. Installation of Fedora and Oracle 10g XE:
h4. 1) Install Fedora 14 Desktop 64-bit form the Live DVD using the defaults.
Note: To open a terminal window, select Terminal from Applications/System Tools menu.
h4. 2) Edit /etc/selinux/config to disable SELinux:
# su - root
# vi /etc/selinux/config
SELINUX=disabled
h4. 3) Install required software including 32-bit libraries:
$ su - root
# yum install install bc libc.so.6 libaio.so.1 gcc libaio compat-libstdc++-33
h4. 4) Download and install Oracle 10g XE:
http://technet.oracle.com
$ su - root
# cd /home/<your_usename>/Downloads
# yum install --nogpgcheck oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm
h4. 5) Configure Oracle 10g XE:
# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
h4. 6) Configure your regular fedora user account:
$ su - root
# /usr/sbin/groupadd -r dba
# usermod -G dba <your username>
# su - <your username>
$ echo "source /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh" >> $HOME/.bashrc
Logout for the change to take affect!
To access the Database Home Page go to "http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex
h3. Remote Access:
h4. 1) Enable remote ssh login:
$ su - root
# service sshd start
# chkconfig --level 345 sshd on
h4. 2) Configure Network Firewall from System/Administration menu:
Other Ports
Add
User defined
Do this for ports 8080 and 1521
Apply
h3. VMWare Tools installation:
+Note: configure your guest OS for Bridged Networking and fixed IP+
$ su - root
# yum install gcc make kernel-devel perl
At your VMware guest menu, select "install VMware Tools"
Right click on VMwareTools-xxx.tar.gz and extract it to the Desktop
Open a terminal window and type the following:
$ su - root
# cd /home/<your_username>/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib
# ./vmware-install.pl
Continue to press Return and accept defaults.
# reboot
h3. Troubleshooting:
h4. ssh port 22: Connection refused
The Network Firewall is enabled by default, but port 22 is open.
You may try to simply disable/apply and enable/apply and try again - strange, but worked for me.
( +service iptables restart+ did not resolve this)
h4. Check if the ssh daemon is running:
# lsof -i tcp:22
h4. Use sqlplus to reset your passwords:
Make sure you properly configured your regular fedora user account as outlined above:
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL> alter user sys identified by "password" account unlock;
SQL> alter user system identified by "password" account unlock;
h4. Start and stop Oracle XE:
# su - root
# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe start
# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe stop
h3. Related Links:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup

Answer 1

I got Oracle 11gR2 running on 64-bit Fedora 14 x86_64 - you do need a mix of x64_86 and i686 (32-bit) packages as given here:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32285/toc.htm
These aren't exact matches on version numbers so when runInstaller doesn't pass validation, just check "Ignore". This will fail during linking, so follow along below and the rest will go smoothly:
installation error in invoking target 'agent nmhs'
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Hi.
So you want to build for fedora 13 without getting the error...
When you start to install with ./runInstaller, run in another terminal window (as root)
ls $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/lib/ins_emagent.mk
At first this will produce an error, as the installer wont have created this file yet.
Once the file exists, do:
vi $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/lib/ins_emagent.mk
Search for the line
$(MK_EMAGENT_NMECTL)
Change it to:
$(MK_EMAGENT_NMECTL) -lnnz11
If you do it within 30-40 seconds of the file appearing, you should not get any errors and the build will go fine. If you get an error, finish your edit then click on retry.
Hope that helps.
Gordon.
Edited by: [email protected] on 07-Jul-2010 06:54
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