I am trying to install database 11gR2 onto a (virtual) Oracle Unbreakable Linux machine (do they still call it that?). Here are the things I ran into:
- I downloaded 2 different zips, but they need to be extracted into the same folder.
- Be sure to have configged the yum repository correctly, because you need to install some libraries with it before or during the installation (libaio, unixOCBD, sysstat)
- Turn off SELinux (or set it to permissive at least)
- To make the database start automatically, look here (and don’t forget to change /etc/oratab)
- a .bashrc for user oracle with environment variables is useful!