Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Installation on Linux in Virtual Environment - Part 2 of 3

Part - 2: Linux Installation

This is Part - 2 of Oracle E-Business SuiteR12 Installation on Linux in virtual environment series.

4.      Install Linux

Before installing Linux in virtual machine, unzip V27571-01.zip to get an iso file OracleLinux-R5-U7-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso

Select newly created virtual machine “R12” & click “Start” icon.

Select Media Source as OracleLinux-R5-U7-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso, click “Next” & click “Start”.

Linux installation will be started soon.

·         Select “Skip” under “CD Found” screen.

·         Red screen of Oracle Linux appears then click “Next”.

·         Select “English (English)” as language & click “Next”.

·         Select “U. S. English” as keyboard & click “Next”.

·         Select “Yes” for “Would you like to initialize this drive, erasing ALL DATA?” in Warming window & click “Next”.

·         Select “Create custom layout” & click “Next”.

·         Click “New” to add partition for primary

Mount Point: /

File System Type: ext3

Size (MB): 6000

Force to be primary partition: checked

And click “OK”.

·         Click “New” to add partition for swap

Mount Point:

File System Type: swap

Size (MB): 4096

Fixed size: checked

Force to be primary partition: checked

And click “OK”.

·         Click “New” to add partition for EBS

Mount Point: /u01

File System Type: ext3

Size (MB): 4096

Fill to maximum allowable size: checked

& click “OK” & click “Next”

·         Click “Next”, Network Devices window appear & click “Edit” to add IP address

Enable IPv4 support: checked

Manual configuration: checked

IP Address: 192.168.1.201

Prefix (Netmask): 255.255.255.0

& Click “OK”.

Hostname manually: ebsr12.soft.com

Gateway: 192.168.1.1

And click “Next”.

·         Select “Asia/Kathmandu” as a region & click “Next”.

·         Enter root password & click “Next”.

·         Select “Customize now” & click “Next”.

·         Select followings:

Development > Development Libraries

Development > Development Tools

Development > GNOME Software Development

Development > Java Development

Development > Legacy Software Development

Development > X Software Development

Base System > Base

Base System > Java

Base System > Legacy Software Support

Base System > System Tools

Base System > X Window System

& click “Next”.

It takes time to complete installation of packages

·         Click “Reboot”.

·         Select the agreement of license & click “Forward”.

·         Select “Disabled” for Firewall & click “Forward”, click “Yes” & click “Forward”.

·         Select “Disabled” for SELinux Setting & click “Forward” ”, click “Yes” & click “Forward”.

·         Click “Forward” in Kdump window.

·         Select Date and Time & click “Forward”.

·         Click “Forward” without creating user.

·         Click “Finish”, System will be restarted.

·         Login as root user.

·         Select “Install Guest Additions” from Devices menu to improve graphics and mouse performance. It adds files in media

·         Navigate to media through Terminal to install the guest additions packages.:
      [root@ebsr12 ~]# cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.6_91406/
      [root@ebsr12 VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.6_91406]# VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
      After installation reboot the virtual machine.

5.      Prepare OS Environment

Ensure /etc/hosts

[root@ebsr12 ~]# vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost.soft.com      localhost
192.168.1.201   ebsr12.soft.com         ebsr12
:wq!
[root@ebsr12 ~]#

Ensure etc/resolv.conf

[root@ebsr12 ~]# vi /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.1.1

# R12 Recommendations #

options attempts:5

options timeout:15
:wq!

[root@ebsr12 ~]#

Set kernel parameters (Edit /etc/sysctl.conf file):

[root@ebsr12 ~]#  vi /etc/sysctl.conf

# Oracle Recommendations for Apps  #

kernel.shmall = 268435456

kernel.shmmax = 4294967295

kernel.shmmni = 4096

kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142

fs.file-max = 327679

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10000 65000

kernel.msgmni = 2878

kernel.msgmax = 8192

kernel.msgmnb = 65535

net.core.rmem_default = 262144

net.core.wmem_default = 262144

net.core.rmem_max = 262144

net.core.wmem_max = 4194304

# Oracle Recommendations for Apps  #
:wq!

[root@ebsr12 ~]# sysctl –p

Increase user limits:

 [root@ebsr12 ~]# vi /etc/security/limits.conf

 *       hard    nofile 65536

 *       soft    nofile 4096

 *       hard    nproc  16384

 *       soft    nproc  2047

 :wq!

6.      Install Required Packages

Ensure the following RPMs are installed:

[root@ebsr12 ~]# cd /media/OL5.7\ i386\ dvd\ 20110728/Server/
Install following RPM packages:

rpm -ivh unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh libXp-devel-1.0.0-8.1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh openmotif22-2.2.3-18.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh libaio-devel-0.3.106-5.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh sysstat-7.0.2-3.el5_5.1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh glibc-2.3.4-2.25

rpm -ivh glibc-common-2.3.4-2.25

rpm -ivh binutils-2.15.92.0.2-21

rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2

rpm -ivh gcc-3.4.6-3

rpm -ivh gcc-c++-3.4.6-3

rpm -ivh libgcc-3.4.6-3

rpm -ivh libstdc++-3.4.6-3

rpm -ivh libstdc++-devel-3.4.6-3

rpm -ivh pdksh-5.2.14-30.3

rpm -ivh setarch-1.6-1

rpm -ivh make-3.80-6.EL4

rpm -ivh gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1

rpm -ivh compat-db-4.1.25-9

rpm -ivh control-center-2.8.0-12.rhel4.5

rpm -ivh xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.11

Download and Install patch "6078836" from

https://updates.oracle.com/ARULink/PatchDetails/process_form?patch_num=6078836
Make a, iso file or share to Linux.
[root@ebsr12 ~]# cd /media/6078836
[root@ebsr12 6078836]# pwd
/media/6078836
[root@ebsr12 6078836]# ls
libdb.so.2  README.txt
[root@ebsr12 6078836]# ls -l /usr/lib/libdb.so.2
ls: /usr/lib/libdb.so.2: No such file or directory
[root@ebsr12root@oraerp1 6078836]# cp libdb.so.2 /usr/lib/

[root@ebsr12 6078836]# ls -l /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

7.      Create Required Users

Create OS group and user:

[root@ebsr12 ~]# groupadd dbaerp
[root@ebsr12 ~]# useradd -G dbaerp oraerp

[root@ebsr12 ~]# useradd -G dbaerp applerp

[root@ebsr12 ~]# passwd oraerp

[root@ebsr12 ~]# passwd applerp

Create directories:

[root@ebsr12 ~]# mkdir /u01/applR12

[root@ebsr12 ~]# mkdir /u01/oraR12

[root@ebsr12 ~]# chmod -R 775 /u01/applR12/

[root@ebsr12 ~]# chmod -R 775 /u01/oraR12

[root@ebsr12 ~]# chown -R applerp:dbaerp /u01/applR12/

[root@ebsr12 ~]# chown -R oraerp:dbaerp /u01/oraR12/

8.      Prepare Staging Area

·         Unzip all zip files of E-Business required software files into EBSR12Ins folder.

·         Make this folder as a single iso file (in my case StageR12) using Folder2Iso and attach it to guest machine by navigating Settings > Storage > select this StageR12.iso file on CD/DVD Drive.

·         Or share EBSR12Ins folder to guest machine by adding this folder in Settings > Shared Folders > click “+” icon to share folder. 
     At Linux Terminal to view folder:
     [root@ebsr12 ~]# mount -t vboxsf EBSR12Ins /root/StageR12

This completes the second part of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Installation on Linux in virtual environment.

Part 1 covers the preparation for Download Required Software, Installation of VirtualBox and creation of virtual machine.

Part 2 covers the installation of Linux & preparation of E-Business Suite installation.

Part 3 covers the actual installation of E-Business Suite and basic post-install steps

Hope this will helpful !

All The Best!