Oracle 19c installation guide linux
Database Client Installation Guide
Oracle Database Database Client Installation Guide, 19c for Linux
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Primary Author: Prakash Jashnani
Contributing Authors: Douglas Williams, Subhash Chandra
Contributors: Jean-Francois Verrier, Neha Avasthy, Kalambhatti Prashanth, Prasad Bagal, Subhranshu Banerjee, Tammy Bednar, Eric Belden, Gavin Bowe, Robert Chang, Darcy Christensen, Kiran Chamala, Jonathan Creighton, Benoit Dageville, Sudip Datta, Jim Erickson, Marcus Fallen, Joseph Francis, Richard Roddy, Allan Graves, Barbara Glover, Aneesh Khandelwal, Joel Kallman, Eugene Karichkin, Jai Krishnani, Sangeeth Kumar, Kevin Jernigan, Christopher Jones, Prasad Kuruvadi Nagaraj, Bryn Llewellyn, Saar Maoz, Sunil Surabhi, Gopal Mulagund, Sue Lee, Rich Long, Barb Lundhild, Rudregowda Mallegowda, Padmanabhan Manavazhi, Mughees Minhas, Krishna Mohan, Matthew McKerley, John McHugh, Gurudas Pai, Satish Panchumarthy , Rajesh Prasad, Rajendra Pingte, Sivaselvam Narayanasamy, Srinivas Poovala, Mohammed Shahnawaz Quadri, Sangeeth Jose, Gurumurthy Ramamurthy, Hema Ramamurthy, Sunil Ravindrachar, Mark Richwine, Dipak Saggi, Trivikrama Samudrala, Pushkar Punit, David Schreiner, Ara Shakian, Mohit Singhal, Dharma Sirnapalli, Akshay Shah, James Spiller, Roy Swonger, Binoy Sukumaran, Kamal Tbeileh, Ravi Thammaiah, Shekhar Vaggu, Peter Wahl, Terri Winters, Sergiusz Wolicki
Oracle Database 19c Installation On Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)
This article describes the installation of Oracle Database 19c 64-bit on Oracle Linux 7 (OL7) 64-bit. The article is based on a server installation with a minimum of 2G swap and secure Linux set to permissive. An example of this type of Linux installation can be seen here here.
Download Software
Download the Oracle software from OTN or MOS depending on your support status.
Hosts File
The «/etc/hosts» file must contain a fully qualified name for the server.
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 192.168.56.107 ol7-19.localdomain ol7-19
Set the correct hostname in the «/etc/hostname» file.
Oracle Installation Prerequisites
Perform either the Automatic Setup or the Manual Setup to complete the basic prerequisites. The Additional Setup is required for all installations.
Automatic Setup
If you plan to use the «oracle-database-preinstall-19c» package to perform all your prerequisite setup, issue the following command.
# yum install -y oracle-database-preinstall-19c
It is probably worth doing a full update as well, but this is not strictly speaking necessary.
It’s worth running the all the YUM commands listed in the manual setup section. Depending on the OS package groups you have selected, some additional packages might also be needed.
If you are using RHEL7 or CentOS7, you can pick up the PRM from the OL7 repository and install it. It will pull the dependencies from your normal repositories.
curl -o oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/getPackage/oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm yum -y localinstall oracle-database-preinstall-19c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Manual Setup
If you have not used the «oracle-database-preinstall-19c» package to perform all prerequisites, you will need to manually perform the following setup tasks.
Add the following lines to the «/etc/sysctl.conf» file, or in a file called «/etc/sysctl.d/98-oracle.conf».
fs.file-max = 6815744 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.shmall = 1073741824 kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104 kernel.panic_on_oops = 1 net.core.rmem_default = 262144 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 1048576 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2 fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500
Run one of the following commands to change the current kernel parameters, depending on which file you edited.
/sbin/sysctl -p # Or /sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/98-oracle.conf
Add the following lines to a file called «/etc/security/limits.d/oracle-database-preinstall-19c.conf» file.
oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536 oracle soft nproc 16384 oracle hard nproc 16384 oracle soft stack 10240 oracle hard stack 32768 oracle hard memlock 134217728 oracle soft memlock 134217728
Someone in the comments suggested you might need to add the previous lines into the «/etc/security/limits.conf» file also for CentOS7. This is definitely not needed for OL7, but worth considering if the installer gives prerequisite failures for these settings.
session required pam_limits.so
The following packages are listed as required. Many of the packages should be installed already.
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 # Added by me. yum install -y unixODBC
Create the new groups and users.
groupadd -g 54321 oinstall groupadd -g 54322 dba groupadd -g 54323 oper #groupadd -g 54324 backupdba #groupadd -g 54325 dgdba #groupadd -g 54326 kmdba #groupadd -g 54327 asmdba #groupadd -g 54328 asmoper #groupadd -g 54329 asmadmin #groupadd -g 54330 racdba useradd -u 54321 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle
Uncomment the extra groups you require.
Additional Setup
The following steps must be performed, whether you did the manual or automatic setup.
Set the password for the «oracle» user.
Set secure Linux to permissive by editing the «/etc/selinux/config» file, making sure the SELINUX flag is set as follows.
Once the change is complete, restart the server or run the following command.
If you have the Linux firewall enabled, you will need to disable or configure it, as shown here. To disable it, do the following.
# systemctl stop firewalld # systemctl disable firewalld
If you are not using Oracle Linux and UEK, you will need to manually disable transparent huge pages.
Create the directories in which the Oracle software will be installed.
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1 mkdir -p /u02/oradata chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01 /u02 chmod -R 775 /u01 /u02
Putting mount points directly under root without mounting separate disks to them is typically a bad idea. It’s done here for simplicity, but for a real installation «/» storage should be reserved for the OS.
Unless you are working from the console, or using SSH tunnelling, login as root and issue the following command.
The scripts are created using the cat command, with all the «$» characters escaped. If you want to manually create these files, rather than using the cat command, remember to remove the «\» characters before the «$» characters.
Create a «scripts» directory.
Create an environment file called «setEnv.sh». The «$» characters are escaped using «\». If you are not creating the file with the cat command, you will need to remove the escape characters.
cat > /home/oracle/scripts/setEnv.shAdd a reference to the "setEnv.sh" file at the end of the "/home/oracle/.bash_profile" file.
echo ". /home/oracle/scripts/setEnv.sh" >> /home/oracle/.bash_profileCreate a "start_all.sh" and "stop_all.sh" script that can be called from a startup/shutdown service. Make sure the ownership and permissions are correct.
cat > /home/oracle/scripts/start_all.sh /home/oracle/scripts/stop_all.shOnce the installation is complete and you've edited the "/etc/oratab", you should be able to start/stop the database with the following scripts run from the "oracle" user.
~/scripts/start_all.sh ~/scripts/stop_all.shYou can see how to create a Linux service to automatically start/stop the database here.
Installation
Log into the oracle user. If you are using X emulation then set the DISPLAY environmental variable.
Switch to the ORACLE_HOME directory, unzip the software directly into this path and start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing one of the following commands in the ORACLE_HOME directory. The interactive mode will display GUI installer screens to allow user input, while the silent mode will install the software without displaying any screens, as all required options are already specified on the command line.
# Unzip software. cd $ORACLE_HOME unzip -oq /path/to/software/LINUX.X64_193000_db_home.zip # Interactive mode. ./runInstaller # Silent mode. ./runInstaller -ignorePrereq -waitforcompletion -silent \ -responseFile $/install/response/db_install.rsp \ oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY \ ORACLE_HOSTNAME=$ \ UNIX_GROUP_NAME=oinstall \ INVENTORY_LOCATION=$ \ SELECTED_LANGUAGES=en,en_GB \ ORACLE_HOME=$ \ ORACLE_BASE=$ \ oracle.install.db.InstallEdition=EE \ oracle.install.db.OSDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSBACKUPDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSDGDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSKMDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSRACDBA_GROUP=dba \ SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT=false \ DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=trueRun the root scripts when prompted.
As a root user, execute the following script(s): 1. /u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh 2. /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/root.shYou can read more about silent installations here.
You are now ready to create a database.
Database Creation
You create a database using the Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA). The interactive mode will display GUI screens to allow user input, while the silent mode will create the database without displaying any screens, as all required options are already specified on the command line.
# Start the listener. lsnrctl start # Interactive mode. dbca # Silent mode. dbca -silent -createDatabase \ -templateName General_Purpose.dbc \ -gdbname $ -sid $ -responseFile NO_VALUE \ -characterSet AL32UTF8 \ -sysPassword SysPassword1 \ -systemPassword SysPassword1 \ -createAsContainerDatabase true \ -numberOfPDBs 1 \ -pdbName $ \ -pdbAdminPassword PdbPassword1 \ -databaseType MULTIPURPOSE \ -memoryMgmtType auto_sga \ -totalMemory 2000 \ -storageType FS \ -datafileDestination "$" \ -redoLogFileSize 50 \ -emConfiguration NONE \ -ignorePreReqsYou can read more about silent database creation here.
Post Installation
Edit the "/etc/oratab" file setting the restart flag for each instance to 'Y'.
cdb1:/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1:YEnable Oracle Managed Files (OMF) and make sure the PDB starts when the instance starts.
sqlplus / as sysdba '; alter pluggable database $ save state; exit; EOFHope this helps. Regards Tim.
Created: 2019-02-26 Updated: 2021-08-27