Oracle 11g R2 on openSuse 11.2

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Hi there!
Could somebody install Oracle 11g R2 on openSuse 11.2?
What instructions did you follow?
Did you use orarun package from Novell?

Thank you in advance.

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Install openSUSE with the c/C++ development pattern. Then install the orarun package from novell (http://ftp.novell.com/partners/oracle/sles-11/orarun.rpm).

This will create a system user oracle. Enable this user in yast by setting its profile to /bin/bash/ and change his password.

Then modify /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh to your liking (ORACLE_HOME etc).

Run rcoracle start to set kernel parameters.

Log in as user oracle and run runInstaller.
Create a database with dbca and a listener with netca.

After you created a database, change /etc/sysconfig/oracle to start the database and listener on startup.

In /etc/oratab set the database to start on boot.

Create a symlink for /etc/oratab in /var/opt/oracle
( ln -s /etc/oratab/ /var/opt/oracle/oratab)

reboot and your database should be running.

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Thank you very much for the details!

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Hi,

I tried to install oracle-11g on openSuse-11.2, however the installer complains about missing pakages:
Package “compat-libstdc+±33-3.2.3” is missing
Package “elfutils-libelf-0.97” is missing
Package “elfutils-libelf-devel-0.97” is missing
Package “glibc-common-2.3.4” is missing
Package “glibc-headers-2.3.4” is missing
Package “libgcc-3.4.6” is missing
Package “libstdc+±3.4.6” is missing
Package “pdksh-5.2.14” is missing
Package “unixODBC-2.2.11” is missing
Package “unixODBC-devel-2.2.11” is missing

I began to search for ‘compat-libstdc+±33-3.2.3’ but could not find this for openSuSE-11.2.

openSuSE-11.2 has C/C++ Devel installed.

What am I missing?
Any hint is very much appereciated.
Wolf

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Are you trying to run 32 bit oracle on a 64-bit opensuse?

Then you would have to install the *_32bit packages as well.

“compat-libstdc+±33-3.2.3” => libstdc++33*
“elfutils-libelf-0.97” => libelf*
“elfutils-libelf-devel-0.97” => libelf*
“glibc-common-2.3.4” => glibc*
“glibc-headers-2.3.4” => glibc*
“libgcc-3.4.6” => libgcc*
“libstdc+±3.4.6” => libstdc++*
“pdksh-5.2.14” => pdksh*
“unixODBC-2.2.11” => unixODBC*
“unixODBC-devel-2.2.11” => unixODBC*

(these must be the devel packages)

I think the installation of the C/C+±devel pattern didn’t go so well. I never had to install any of these packages after that. The only package that oracle complains is openmotif (which isn’t required, but it’s usefull).