Introduction -

Oracle Database is widely used commercial Database on Unix/Linux and Windows platform….
This article explain the step by step installation of Oracle 10g Release 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.04111!!
Please refer the Oracle installation guide for System requirement…

1] Hardware requirement -

RAM – minimum 1024 MB of physical memory
Disk space -1.5 GB  to 3.5 GB of disk space, depends on the installation…
Minimum 400 MB of disk space in the /tmp directory

arunsb@arun:~$ free  -m
arunsb@arun:~$ df -h
arunsb@arun:~$ df -h /tmp

2] Software dependency -

Make sure that following packages are installed on your system!!

make-3.8
gcc-4.2
libdb4.2
libdb4.2++-dev
libstdc++6
libstdc++6-4.2-dev
libmotif-dev
libmotif3

root@arun:~# apt-get install  build-essential libc6-dev  libmotif-dev  libmotif3
root@arun:~# apt-get install  xauth libxp6 libxt6 libxtst6 libaio1  glibc-source
root@arun:~# apt-get install  rpm

root@arun:~# ln -s /usr/bin/awk   /bin/awk
root@arun:~# ln -s /usr/bin/basename     /bin/basename
root@arun:~# ln -s /usr/bin/rpm    /bin/rpm

root@arun:~# dpkg -l

3] Operating System Groups and Users for Oracle -

* oinstall – Oracle Inventory group
* dba       – The OS DBA group
* oracle   – Oracle software owner  (in mycase arunsb is oracle user)

root@arun:~# id oracle
id: oracle: No such user
root@arun:~#
root@arun:~# grep oinstall /etc/group
root@arun:~# grep dba  /etc/group

NOTE – “oinstall” should be primary group of oracle user. It is not necessary to use “oracle” as username, you can name but make sure that the “oinstall” is primary group of that user!!

root@arun:~# addgroup oinstall
Adding group ‘oinstall’ (GID 1001) …
Done.
root@arun:~#

root@arun:~# addgroup  dba
Adding group `dba’ (GID 1002) …
Done.
root@arun:~#

root@arun:~# addgroup nobody
Adding group `nobody’ (GID 1000) …
Done.
root@arun:~#

root@arun:~# useradd -g oinstall -G dba   arunsb
root@arun:~#

root@arun:~# id arunsb
uid=1000(arunsb) gid=1001(oinstall) groups=1001(oinstall),1002(dba)
root@arun:~#

*** other setting -

root@arun:~# echo “Red Hat Linux release 3.0 (drupal)” > /etc/redhat-release

root@arun:~# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 3.0 (drupal)
root@arun:~#

PART 2 – please