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Installation Steps For Oracle Application Server 10g R2 On Linux Redhat 4 Update 6
(for people who wonder You can’t install it on RHEL 5 ).

Installation Steps :

Pre-Installation Task

1) Check the required packages are installed in OS or not.

glibc-2.3.4-2.9
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
gcc-3.4.3-22.1
gcc-c++-3.4.3-22.1
libstdc++-3.4.3-22.1
libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-22.1
openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.4
pdksh-5.2.14-30
setarch-1.6-1
make-3.80-5
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1
sysstat-5.0.5-1
compat-db-4.1.25-9
control-center-2.8.0-12
xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2

you can check the status of package using rpm -qa | grep command. as a root user.

2) Add following in /etc/sysctl.conf

kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 4347483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
# semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni
kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142
fs.file-max = 201072
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10000 65000
kernel.msgmni = 2878
kernel.msgmax = 8192
kernel.msgmnb = 65535

3) Make entry of hostname and domain name in /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.hostname=
kernel.domainname=

4) Make following changes in /etc/security/limits.conf

*        soft   nproc         2047
*        hard   nproc         16384
*        soft   nofile        2048
*        hard   nofile        65536

5) Add the following line to the /etc/pam.d/login file

session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so

6) Make the following entry in /etc/profile

if [ $USER = “oracle” ]; then
if [ $SHELL = “/bin/ksh” ]; then
ulimit -p 16384
ulimit -n 65536
else
ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536
fi
fi

7) Create a group and user.

Primary Group – oinstall#groupadd oinstall
Secondary Group#groupadd dba
#useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle
Give the password
# passwd oracle
Changing password for user oracle.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

8) Make changes in /etc/hosts as root user and make following entry.

(IP Address) (hostname.domain.name) (hostname)

Installing Infrastructure Tier

The installation of AS10g should be done in specific order only as explained before. This is because of the dependencies between the components. Here we are going to install Portal and Wireless option of mid tier, this needs database repository for storing the information of these components. So we will first install infrastructure tier and then install Mid tier. Please follow the below screen shots.