Installation of Oracle 12c
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 process for actual installation of Oracle 12c RDBMS Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5 platform. This procedure assumes that Part 1 through Part 10 of this series has been complete successfully.
NOTE: This process can be used for most Linux installations, regardless of original company or organization providing the base Linux OS.

1. Logon to your Windows desktop/laptop as an administrator and open Oracle VirtualBox.
2. SSH to your OEL virtual server as the oracle software owner.
3. CD to the directory /opt/app/oracle_software/database that was created during part 10 of this series and execute the command ‘cp ./response/db_install.rsp .’

[root@oel65 oracle_software]# cp ./response/db_install.rsp .
[root@oel65 oracle_software]#

4. Open the file db_install.rsp and edit the variable “ORACLE_HOSTNAME” and make ORACLE_HOSTNAME equal to the correct server name for your VM.

5. As the oracle user, change directory to /opt/app/oracle_software/database and execute the command ‘./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /opt/app/oracle_software/database/db_install.rsp’

[root@oel65 database]# ./runInstaller –silent –responseFile /opt/app/oracle_software/database/db_install.rsp
Starting Oracle Universal Installer….
[root@oel65 database]#

6. Change to the user root with the command ‘su -‘ and execute the scripts “/opt/app/oracle_inventory/inventory/orainstRoot.sh” and “/opt/app/oracle/ucop_db/root.sh”

7. This completes the installation of Oracle 12c on your Linux VM.

Larry Catt, OCP