Oracle 19c Installation on RHEL 7.9 🚀

Prerequisites

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Install required X11 packages

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Install X11 packages with following command based on your operating system release and version:

yum install xorg-x11-xauth -y

Configure X11 forwarding

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To enable X11 Forwarding, change the “X11Forwarding” parameter using vi or nano editor to yes in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file if either commented out or set to no.

vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

or

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

You should see similar output as the following:

X11Forwarding yes

Install the Dependencies

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yum install libnsl* -y
yum install -y bc    
yum install -y binutils
yum install -y compat-libcap1
yum install -y compat-libstdc++-33
#yum install -y dtrace-modules
#yum install -y dtrace-modules-headers
#yum install -y dtrace-modules-provider-headers
yum install -y dtrace-utils
yum install -y elfutils-libelf
yum install -y elfutils-libelf-devel
yum install -y fontconfig-devel
yum install -y glibc
yum install -y glibc-devel
yum install -y ksh
yum install -y libaio
yum install -y libaio-devel
yum install -y libdtrace-ctf-devel
yum install -y libXrender
yum install -y libXrender-devel
yum install -y libX11
yum install -y libXau
yum install -y libXi
yum install -y libXtst
yum install -y libgcc
yum install -y librdmacm-devel
yum install -y libstdc++
yum install -y libstdc++-devel
yum install -y libxcb
yum install -y make
yum install -y net-tools # Clusterware
yum install -y nfs-utils # ACFS
yum install -y python # ACFS
yum install -y python-configshell # ACFS
yum install -y python-rtslib # ACFS
yum install -y python-six # ACFS
yum install -y targetcli # ACFS
yum install -y smartmontools
yum install -y sysstat

yum update -y

yum grouplist

yum group install "Development Tools"

Create Oracle Groups and add user

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groupadd -g 3001 oinstall
groupadd -g 3002 dba
groupadd -g 3003 oper
useradd -u 3001 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle

passwd oracle

Create the required directories

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mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/19.3/db_home

Change Ownership & Access Permissions

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chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01
chmod -R 775 /u01

su - oracle

export CV_ASSUME_DISTID=RHEL8.5

Update the .bash_profile

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vi .bash_profile

nano .bash_profile

Update the Bash Profile with the following:

export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.3/db_home
export CLIENT_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.3/client
#export ORACLE_SID=CDB
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$CLIENT_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
export CLASSPATH=\$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:\$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib:$CLIENT_HOME/rdbms/jlib$
export NLS_LANG=american_america.al32utf8
export NLS_DATE_FORMAT="yyyy-mm-dd:hh24:mi:ss"
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$CLIENT_HOME/bin

19c Installation

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Download the Oracle 19c Software from Oracle’s Offical Website Copy it to $ORACLE_HOME location, unzip the software and run below cmd

./runInstaller

Oracle 19c DB Software Installation Wizard will appear.

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Step 1 of 9 Select ‘Setup Software Only’

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Step 2 of 9 Select ‘Single Instance Database Only’

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Step 3 of 9 Select ‘Enterprise Edition’

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Step 4 of 9Verify Oracle Base Location and Proceed to the Next Step

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Step 5 of 9Verify Oracle Inventory Directory and Proceed to the Next Step

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Step 6 of 9 Verify the OS Groups created in the Prerequisite Step above

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Step 7 of 9 Important

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Select the “Automatically run Configuration Scrips and.

Select use “root” and enter the root Password Below

Step 8 of 9The Installer will perform the Prerequisite Checks before proceeding

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Save the Response File once the Checks have been completed

Step 9 of 9Progress of Oracle 19c Software will begin.

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Once the Installation has Completed, Execute the following command to verify the sqlplus version.

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sqlplus -v

You will get the Following Output:

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