(using silent mode – the box doesn’t has xserver installed)

This documentation is sumarized  from :
– Oracle documentation
– Installing Oracle 11g on ubuntu linux 7.10 (gutsy Gibbon) by Augusto Bott
– Installing ubuntu 10gR2 on ubuntu edgy by akhsay mehta
– Installing oracle 10g in ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy gibbon)
The steps are :
1. Login to your ubuntu box using user which has administrative rights
2. check swap (typically 2GB or more)  , hard drive space (for EE needs 2.5 GB),and enough ram
(at least 2 GB)
3. Install library packages
­ sudo apt­get install build­essential libmotif3 libaio1 rpm lesstif2­dev alien
4. create groups, user swhich are used by oracle installation
­ sudo groupadd oinstall
­ sudo groupadd nobody
­ sudo groupadd dba
­ sudo useradd -­g oinstall ­-G dba,nobody ­-d /opt/oracle ­-m oracle ­-s /bin/bash
­ sudo useradd nobody ­-g nobody
­ sudo passwd oracle (set oracle user password)
5. Make sure to set the directory ownership
­sudo chown -­R oracle:oinstall /opt/oracle
­sudo chmod ­-R 775 /opt/oracle
6. try to login using oracle user, if failed, check steps [at 4] above and do the steps again. If it
works fine and success, then logout
7. Append ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and PATH to  oracle’s  .bashrc
­ sudo vi /opt/oracle/.bashrc
­ export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
­ export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10gR2
­ export ORACLE_SID=orcl
­ export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
8. Append this configuration to /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 262144
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144
fs.file­max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000

9. type the following command:
­ sudo /sbin/sysctl ­p
10. Append the following configuration to /etc/security/limits.conf
­ *soft nproc 2047
­ *hard nproc 16384
­ *soft nofile 1024
­ *hard nofile 65536
11. Create symbolics links to make the ubutu box like as Red hat system (oracle need redhat
system)
­ sudo ln -­s /usr/bin/awk /bin/awk
­ sudo ln ­-s /usr/bin/rpm /bin/rpm
­ sudo ln ­-s /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /lib/libgcc_s.so
­ sudo ln ­-s /usr/bin/basename /bin/basename
­ sudo ln ­-s /etc /etc/rc.d
­ sudo touch /etc/redhat­release
­ sudo chmod 666 /etc/redhat­release
­ sudo echo “Red Hat Linux release 4.0 ”> /etc/redhat­release
12. login as oracle user
13. run the installer (on silent mode) using response file ahmad.rsp (the file is attached)
­ ./runInstaller ­ignoreSysPrereqs ­silent ­responseFile ahmad.rsp
14. Wait for the rest installation till complete
15. edit the oratab file in /etc/oratab
­ change N to Y
16.  Create the startup script (oracle)

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/init.d/oracledb
#
# Run­level Startup script for the Oracle Listener and Instances
#
# It relies on the information on /etc/oratab
export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10gR2
export ORACLE_OWNR=oracle
e
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
if [ ! ­f $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart ­o ! ­d $ORACLE_HOME ]
then
echo “Oracle startup: cannot start”
exit 1
f
fi
case “$1” in
start)
# Oracle listener and instance startup
echo ­n “Starting Oracle: ”
su $ORACLE_OWNR ­c “$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl start”
su $ORACLE_OWNR ­c “$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart”
touch /var/lock/oracle
echo “OK”
;;
stop)
# Oracle listener and instance shutdown
echo ­n “Shutdown Oracle: ”
su $ORACLE_OWNR ­c “$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl stop”
su $ORACLE_OWNR ­c “$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut”
rm ­f /var/lock/oracle
echo “OK”
;;
reload|restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo “Usage: ‘basename $0’ start|stop|restart|reload”
exit 1
e
esac
exit 0
17. put the script on /etc/init.d/ folder
18. set to chmod 777
19. type the following command to create symbolic links to make the db start on boot
­ sudo update­rc.d oracle defaults

Jakarta, 20 juli 2008
A. Ahmad Kusumah