Thursday, January 11, 2018

Preventive tasks : Avoid errors & issues while installing oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 server(x86-64):-

Error/Issue No:-1 Packages "elfutils-libelf-devel-0.97" And "pdksh-5.2.14" Are Missing (PRVF-7532) (Doc ID 1454982.1)


Workaround:-
Once the software is copied/extracted under  <path>/database, do the following:
1
 Change directory to <path>/database/stage/cvu/cv/admin
2
Backup cvu_config

% cp cvu_config backup_cvu_config
3
Edit cvu_config and change the following line:

CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OEL4
TO
CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OEL6
4
Save the updated cvu_config file
5
Install the 11.2.0.3 or 11.2.0.4 software using <path>/database/runInstaller

cd <path>/database
6
./runInstaller

Error/Issue No:-2 error in invoking target 'agent nmhs' of make file ins_emagent.mk while installing Oracle 11.2.0.4 on Linux (Doc ID 2299494.1)



workaround:-
1
vi $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/lib/ins_emagent.mk
2
search for the line

$(MK_EMAGENT_NMECTL)
3
Then replace the line with

$(MK_EMAGENT_NMECTL) -lnnz11
and save the file
4
Then click “Retry” button to continue.




Installation Reference URLs 
1. https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/oracle-db-11gr2-installation-on-oracle-linux-7
2. http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-solutions/w/oracle_solutions/3885.how-to-install-a-standalone-oracle-database