This document describes the process of installing Oracle® 8.0.5 and Oracle® 8.0.5.1 Enterprise Edition for Linux® onto a FreeBSD machine.
Make sure emulators/linux_base
has been installed from the Ports Collection.
To run the intelligent agent, install the Red Hat Tcl
package: tcl-8.0.3-20.i386.rpm
. The
general command for installing RPMs with the archivers/rpm
port is:
#
rpm -i --ignoreos --root /compat/linux --dbpath /var/lib/rpm package
This command should not generate any errors.
Before installing Oracle®, set up a proper environment. This section only describes how to install Oracle® for Linux® on FreeBSD, not what has been described in the Oracle® installation guide.
As described in the Oracle®
installation guide, the maximum size of shared memory needs
to be set. Do not use SHMMAX
under FreeBSD
as it is calculated from SHMMAXPGS
and
PGSIZE
. Therefore, define
SHMMAXPGS
. All other options can be
used as described in the guide. For example:
Set these options to suit the intended use of Oracle®.
Also, make sure the following options are in the kernel configuration file:
Create a user account to be used as the
oracle
account. Add
/compat/linux/bin/bash
to
/etc/shells
and set the shell for
the oracle
account to
/compat/linux/bin/bash
.
Besides the normal Oracle®
variables, such as ORACLE_HOME
and
ORACLE_SID
set the following
environment variables:
Variable | Value |
---|---|
LD_LIBRARY_PATH | $ORACLE_HOME/lib |
CLASSPATH | $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/classes111.zip |
PATH | /compat/linux/bin
/compat/linux/sbin
/compat/linux/usr/bin
/compat/linux/usr/sbin
/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin
$ORACLE_HOME/bin |
It is advised to set all the environment variables in
~/.profile
as follows:
Before starting the installer, create a directory named
/var/tmp/.oracle
which
is owned by the oracle
user. The
installation of Oracle® should
work without any problems. If errors are encountered, check
the Oracle® distribution and
configuration. Once Oracle® is
installed, apply the patches described in the next two
subsections.
A frequent error is that the TCP protocol adapter is not installed correctly. As a consequence, no TCP listeners can be started. The following actions help to solve this problem:
#
cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib
#
make -f ins_network.mk ntcontab.o
#
cd $ORACLE_HOME/lib
#
ar r libnetwork.a ntcontab.o
#
cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/lib
#
make -f ins_network.mk install
Do not forget to run root.sh
again.
When installing Oracle®,
some actions, which need to be performed as
root
, are recorded in a shell script
called root.sh
. This script is
found in orainst
.
Apply the following patch to root.sh
so that it can find the FreeBSD location of
chown
. Alternatively, run the script
under a Linux® native shell.
If Oracle® is not installed
from CD, patch the source for root.sh
.
It is called rthd.sh
and is located in
orainst
in the source
tree.
The script genclntsh
is used to
create a single shared client library when building the
demos. Apply the following patch to comment out the
definition of PATH
:
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sent to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>.
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