Oracle Universal Installer in Linux error

Question

I did as follows:
Double check that you are logged in as oracle and not root, and that the environment variables have been set by the login script you prepared earlier. Then change to your home directory and start the Oracle Universal Installer with a command like one of the following:
$ /database/runInstaller
or
$ /runInstaller
, but got the following error:
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ /media/Oracle\ 11g\ Svr/linux_11gR2_database_1of2/database/runInstaller
dirname: extra operand `11g'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
/media/Oracle 11g Svr/linux_11gR2_database_1of2/database/runInstaller: line 137: /home/oracle//install/.oui: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba ~]$
Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting these error and how I can fix them
I tried creating the directories in this path /home/oracle//install/.oui and used the touch command to create the .oui file. The I did a chown -R oracle:oinstall on all the directories and files except the /home directory in the following path /home/oracle//install/.oui, but I still got the following error:
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ /media/Oracle\ 11g\ Svr/runInstaller
dirname: extra operand `11g'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
[oracle@dgdba ~]$
Then I tried the following and got the following errors:
[oracle@dgdba home]$ cd /home/oracle
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ cd /home
[oracle@dgdba home]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba home]$ cd /home/oracle
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ ls -l /home/oracle
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:25 install
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:34 source
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ cd /home/oracle/source
[oracle@dgdba source]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba source]$ ls -l /home/oracle/source
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:35 database
[oracle@dgdba source]$ cd /home/oracle/source/database
[oracle@dgdba database]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba database]$ ls -l /home/oracle/source/database
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:35 install
[oracle@dgdba database]$ ls -l /home/oracle/source/database/install
total 0
[oracle@dgdba database]$ cd /home/oracle/source/database/install
[oracle@dgdba install]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba install]$

Answer 1

993126 wrote:
I did as follows:
Double check that you are logged in as oracle and not root, and that the environment variables have been set by the login script you prepared earlier. Then change to your home directory and start the Oracle Universal Installer with a command like one of the following:
$ /database/runInstaller
or
$ /runInstaller
, but got the following error:
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ /media/Oracle\ 11g\ Svr/linux_11gR2_database_1of2/database/runInstaller
dirname: extra operand `11g'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
/media/Oracle 11g Svr/linux_11gR2_database_1of2/database/runInstaller: line 137: /home/oracle//install/.oui: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba ~]$
Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting these error and how I can fix them
I tried creating the directories in this path /home/oracle//install/.oui and used the touch command to create the .oui file. The I did a chown -R oracle:oinstall on all the directories and files except the /home directory in the following path /home/oracle//install/.oui, but I still got the following error:
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ /media/Oracle\ 11g\ Svr/runInstaller
dirname: extra operand `11g'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
[oracle@dgdba ~]$
Then I tried the following and got the following errors:
[oracle@dgdba home]$ cd /home/oracle
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ cd /home
[oracle@dgdba home]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directoryyou told the shell processor to execute a file named "runInstaller", found in the root directory "/"
[oracle@dgdba home]$ cd /home/oracle
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directorychanging directories is pointless, you still told the shell processor to find "runInstaller" in the root directory.
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ ls -l /home/oracle
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:25 install
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:34 source
[oracle@dgdba ~]$ cd /home/oracle/source
[oracle@dgdba source]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directoryDoesn't matter to prove what is in a particular directory, then change directories. And still telling the shell processor to find "runInstaller" in the root directory.
[oracle@dgdba source]$ ls -l /home/oracle/source
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:35 database
[oracle@dgdba source]$ cd /home/oracle/source/database
[oracle@dgdba database]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba database]$ ls -l /home/oracle/source/database
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Mar 10 18:35 install
[oracle@dgdba database]$ ls -l /home/oracle/source/database/install
total 0
[oracle@dgdba database]$ cd /home/oracle/source/database/install
[oracle@dgdba install]$ /runInstaller
-bash: /runInstaller: No such file or directory
[oracle@dgdba install]$You can change directories until the cows come home, but it doesn't matter as long as you keep telling the shell processor to find "runInstaller" in the root directory.
find /home/oracle -name runInstaller -ls -lcd to whatever directory you find is the location for runInstaller. Let's say it is in /home/oracle/source/database
cd /home/oracle/source/database
./runInstallerNote that is dot, slash, filename. The 'dot' says 'look for the file in the current directory'. when you say '/runInstaller' you are saying to look for the file in the root directory.
Oh, and make sure you can execute xclock or xeyes first. If you can't, you won't be able to execute runInstaller either.