The installation of Oracle RDBMS software requires supporting OS level functionality to successfully complete and operate. This article outlines the check which should be done before the installation of Oracle 10g RDBMS is begun.
1. Logon to your Linux Server as the root user.
2. Below is a listing of the RPMs Oracle gives as required for a successful 10g RDBMS install. However, RPMs are continuously updated so the version on your system may be newer than shown below.
libgomp-4.1.2-42.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.el5.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.5-24.x86_64.rpm
libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-42.el5.x86_64.rpm
sysstat-7.0.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.5-24.x86_64.rpm
libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.x86_64.rpm
gcc-4.1.2-42.el5.x86_64.rpm
gcc-c++-4.1.2-42.el5.x86_64.rpm
elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.125-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
compat-db-4.2.52-5.1.x86_64.rpm
compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.x86_64.rpm
compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4.x86_64.rpm
gdb-6.5-37.el5.x86_64.rpm
libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-46.1.x86_64.rpm
readline-devel-5.1-1.1.x86_64.rpm
unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.x86_64.rpm
unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.5-24.i386.rpm
libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.i386.rpm
libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-42.el5.i386.rpm
unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.i386.rpm
unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386.rpm
libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.i386.rpm
3. When investigating if the RPM exists on your system, you should not include the version number. In this example we will check for the existence of RPM libgomp-4.1.2-42.el5.x86_64.rpm. Use the rpm –qa command to gather all installed packages, then lookup the specific one with grep.
[root@mylinux1 ~]# rpm -qa|grep libgomp
libgomp-4.4.4-13.el5
[root@mylinux1 ~]#
4. As seen above the actual version of the rpm libgomp is 4.4.4 which is greater than the required version of 4.1.2 and meets our needs for 10g RDBMS install.
5. Repeat these steps for each required package.
This completes checking for required Oracle 10g RDBMS packages.
Larry J. Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
oracle@allcompute.com
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