First of all make sure your machines hostname resolves to your external IP and not the loopback IP (127.0.0.1).
Double check using this command
$ grep $(hostname) /etc/hostsIf you see 127.0.0.1 just edit the hosts file to have the external IP.
192.168.95.40 htpc
Now you need to install a few compat libraries and 32-bit libraries.
sudo apt-get install gcc libaio1 lesstif2This will probably cascade in to quite a few packages depending on how much you have installed, be patient and let it download everything it needs. The extra ia32 libraries is probably the biggest change to the old 32-bit installation.
lesstif2-dev make libc6 libstdc++5 \
lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 ia32-libs
Edit /etc/sysctl.conf to have the kernel parameters required by Oracle (I've added a few extras here as well to avoid unecessery swapping).
Add these lines:
# Oracle stuffCreate the oracle user and required groups (you don't really need the nobody group, it's only used by root.sh to be the group owning the oraenv and dbhome scripts).
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 262144
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144
vm.swappiness=10
sudo groupadd nobody
sudo groupadd oinstall
sudo groupadd dba
sudo useradd -s /bin/bash -g oinstall -G dba oracle
sudo passwd oracle
Increase system limits by adding these lines to /etc/security/limits.conf:
* soft nproc 2047To avoid the non-redhat warnings during the prereqs run this command:
* hard nproc 16384
* soft nofile 1024
* hard nofile 65536
echo 3 > /etc/redhat-releaseAdd a few symlinks to avoid any script problems:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/awk /bin/awkTime to run the installer, make sure you are allowed to use the X11 server (export DISPLAY, xhost, vnc whatever).
sudo ln -s /bin/true /bin/rpm
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/basename /bin/basename
sudo ln -s /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /lib/libgcc_s.so
sudo mkdir -p /u01/oracle/10g
sudo chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/oracle/10g
sudo chmod -R 775 /u01/oracle
To get the 32-bit JRE to work you need to set the XLOCALELIBDIR before running the installer:
export XLOCALELIBDIR=/usr/lib32/X11/localeI just ran the defaults straight through (except the SID name and password). The installation without any warnings or errors. The linker worked fine and everything was configure properly, dbca created the standard database.
cd /your/install/dir
./runInstaller
oracle@htpc:~$ uname -a
Linux htpc 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 15:34:39 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
oracle@htpc:~$ rsqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Oct 21 20:13:45 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> select platform_name from v$database;
PLATFORM_NAME
--------------------
Linux 64-bit for AMD
SQL>
This guide is based on the Oracle 10gR2 x64_64 installation guide and I've also used Dizwells excellent Ubuntu 6.06 32-bit guide for some ubuntu specific notes. Thanks.
Cool, now I can alt-tab between sqlplus and my latest Prison Break episodes on the TV . :)
