Part 1 – Building Oracle 12c development suite – Media packages required for installation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5

Media packages required for installation of Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5
Oracle Corporation provides the ability for developers to create a complete development suite on their personal windows desktop or laptop without requiring the expensive equipment required for a true production system. This article outlines the required packages to download from Oracle Corporation website to deploy a development site on your personal windows based desktop or laptop.

NOTE: This suite can be installed on any type of OS, just download the appropriate VirtualBox software package for your base system.
Required downloads:
VirtualBox-4.3.20-96997-Win.exe
V41362-01 – Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 5 for x86_64 (64 Bit)
1. If you do not already have an Oracle Corporation Developers logon, go to www.oracle.com and create an account.
2. Logon to the oracle website with your developers account and navigate the website to the latest Virtual Box download. As of this writing, the URL was: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen#vbox
3. Logon to the oracle website with your developers account and navigate the website to the latest Oracle Enterprise Linux download. As of this writing, the URL was: https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/Download/get_form?egroup_aru_number=17052719 Select the media package V41362-01 for Oracle Linux 6.5 Release Date: Dec – 10- 2013.
4. This are the two required packages to build an Oracle Linux system on your Windows based desktop or laptop.

Larry Catt