Step by Step Oracle 19c Installation On Linux

This article will cover step by step Oracle 19C installation on Linux / Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9. 

Before starting of the process you need to download the oracle 19.3 binary 

Oracle 19C Installation Prerequisites

There are two options for completion of basic prerequisites. 

  • Automatic Setup
  • Manual Setup

Automatic Setup

If you wish to perform all your prerequisite setup, issue the following command.

# yum install -y oracle-database-preinstall-19c

It will complete all your basic steps.

Manual Setup

If you wish to perform manual setup, then you need to manually perform the following setup tasks.

Add the following lines to the “/etc/sysctl.conf” file.

fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 1073741824
kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104
kernel.panic_on_oops = 1
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 1048576
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500

Run one of the following commands to change the current kernel parameters –

/sbin/sysctl -p

Add the following lines to ‘/etc/security/limits.conf ‘

oracle   soft   nofile    1024
oracle   hard   nofile    65536
oracle   soft   nproc    16384
oracle   hard   nproc    16384
oracle   soft   stack    10240
oracle   hard   stack    32768
oracle   hard   memlock    134217728
oracle   soft   memlock    134217728

Next step is to add required RPM packages to be installed. Below is the list –

yum install -y bc    
yum install -y binutils
yum install -y compat-libcap1
yum install -y compat-libstdc++-33
#yum install -y dtrace-modules
#yum install -y dtrace-modules-headers
#yum install -y dtrace-modules-provider-headers
yum install -y dtrace-utils
yum install -y elfutils-libelf
yum install -y elfutils-libelf-devel
yum install -y fontconfig-devel
yum install -y glibc
yum install -y glibc-devel
yum install -y ksh
yum install -y libaio
yum install -y libaio-devel
yum install -y libdtrace-ctf-devel
yum install -y libXrender
yum install -y libXrender-devel
yum install -y libX11
yum install -y libXau
yum install -y libXi
yum install -y libXtst
yum install -y libgcc
yum install -y librdmacm-devel
yum install -y libstdc++
yum install -y libstdc++-devel
yum install -y libxcb
yum install -y make
yum install -y net-tools # Clusterware
yum install -y nfs-utils # ACFS
yum install -y python # ACFS
yum install -y python-configshell # ACFS
yum install -y python-rtslib # ACFS
yum install -y python-six # ACFS
yum install -y targetcli # ACFS
yum install -y smartmontools
yum install -y sysstat

Create ORACLE_HOME directory –

mkdir -p /d01/oracle/product/v.19.13.0.0

Oracle 19C Binary / Software Installation Steps

Log into the oracle user and do the following.

export DISPLAY=<machine-name>:0.0
Unzip Software –

cd $ORACLE_HOME

unzip LINUX.X64_193000_db_home.zip

./runInstaller

Now we will start the oracle binary installation. 

Step 1 :-  Click on setup software only.

Step 1

Step 2 :- Click Single instance database installation

Step 2

Step 3 :-  Click on Enterprise Edition

Step 3

Step 4:- Set the oracle base

Step 4

Step 5 :- Select the groups

Step 5

Step 6 :- You can choose either manual run of ‘root.sh’ file or automatic as shown below.

Step 6

Step7:- Checking configuration

Step 7

Step 8 :- If all good then this screen will arrive.

Step 8

Step 9 :-  Installation is in progress

Step 9

 

Step 10 :- Installation complete

Step 10

Install OPatch / Version Upgrade

Now we will apply the OPatch to the ORACLE_HOME to make it 19.13.

For this we first need to upgrade the OPatch utility to the latest one.

Rename the old OPatch Utility
cd $ORACLE_HOME
mv OPatch/ OPatch_old
unzip p6880880_122010_Linux-x86-64.zip
Apply the latest OPatch
cd /d01/software
unzip p33192793_190000_Linux-x86-64.zip

$ ls -lrth drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle oracle 81 Oct 15 03:09 33192793 -rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle oracle 1.1M Oct 15 04:40 PatchSearch.xml -rwxrwxr-x 1 oracle oracle 1.4G Feb 3 23:54 p33192793_190000_Linux-x86-64.zip

cd
33192793/
/d01/oracle/product/v.19.13.0.0/OPatch/opatch apply
Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.27
Copyright (c) 2022, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
Oracle Home       : /d01/oracle/product/19.13.0/dbhome_1
Central Inventory : /home/oracle/oraInventory
   from           : /d01/oracle/product/19.13.0/dbhome_1/oraInst.loc
OPatch version    : 12.2.0.1.27
OUI version       : 12.2.0.7.0
Log file location : /d01/oracle/product/19.13.0/dbhome_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2022-01-31_09-46-30AM_1.log
Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks...
OPatch continues with these patches:   33192793
Do you want to proceed? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y
All checks passed.
Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system.
(Oracle Home = '/d01/oracle/product/19.13.0/dbhome_1')
Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n]
y
User Responded with: Y
Backing up files...
Applying interim patch '33192793' to OH '/d01/oracle/product/19.13.0/dbhome_1'
ApplySession: Optional component(s) [ oracle.network.gsm, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.rdbms.ic, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.rdbms.tg4db2, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.tfa, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.ons.eons.bwcompat, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.oid.client, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.rdbms.tg4ifmx, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.options.olap.api, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.net.cman, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.options.olap, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.rdbms.tg4sybs, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.rdbms.tg4tera, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.ons.cclient, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.rdbms.tg4msql, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.xdk.companion, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.network.cman, 19.0.0.0.0 ] , [ oracle.jdk, 1.8.0.191.0 ]  not present in the Oracle Home or a higher version is found.
Patching component oracle.perlint, 5.28.1.0.0...
Patching component oracle.rdbms.locator, 19.0.0.0.0... 

Post successful completion of patching you will get the below message –

Opatch Success Screen

This way you can conclude that your patching is successful.

Conclusion

The above article has provided you with enough information about how to install Oracle 19C on Linux. The step-by-step guide is specially provided to help beginners understand the process and start testing the different processes in their environment. Please let us know if you have any suggestions.

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