Oracle 9i instalation on CentOS 4.4 Final Release

Here I post a quick tutorial to install Oracle 9i Release 2 on CentOS 4.4 (RHEL 4.4 Clone). You can download oracle 9i from Oracle Website (download.oracle.com) and for the Linux you can download it from official website www.centos.org or from local mirror (centos.cbn.net.id)

Before you can install Oracle, you need to check packets installed on your computer.
- CD 1
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm

- CD 2
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6-5.RHEL4.i386.rpm
fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-7.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-1.i386.rpm
libjpeg-devel-6b-33.i386.rpm
libtiff-devel-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm
libungif-devel-4.1.3-1.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm
xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm

- CD 3
audiofile-devel-0.2.6-1.i386.rpm
esound-devel-0.2.35-2.i386.rpm
libaio-0.3.103-3.i386.rpm
libaio-devel-0.3.103-3.i386.rpm
openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.4.i386.rpm

- CD 4
glib-devel-1.2.10-15.i386.rpm
gnome-libs-devel-1.4.1.2.90-44.1.i386.rpm
gtk+-devel-1.2.10-33.i386.rpm
imlib-devel-1.9.13-23.i386.rpm
ORBit-devel-0.5.17-14.i386.rpm

-- Additional packets from oracle
compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm
compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm


Here is some steps that I've done:

1. Unzip the oracle using gunzip and cpio
- gunzip ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio.gz
- cpio -idmv < ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio
2. Create oracle user and group
/usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall
/usr/sbin/groupadd dba
/usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba database
passwd database

3. Create folder in which Oracle will be installed
mkdir /data/oracle
mkdir /data/oracle/9.2.0
chown -R database:oinstall /data/oracle

4. Add this user environment variable on file .bashrc on user's home directory
ORACLE_SID=testdb
ORACLE_BASE=/data/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/data/oracle/9.2.0
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH:.
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
export ORACLE_SID ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME PATH LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

5. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf file and add those line
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000

after adding those line, check the parameter using this command
/sbin/sysctl -p

6. After those step, you can run runInstaller on the file that you have just extracted
./runInstaller

That is the step to install oracle 9i on CentOS 4.4

This tutorial is taken from http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml