Comments on: Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu Linux 7.04

By: Gabriel.

Gabriel. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:34:40 +0000

FWIW I followed this installation guide on a fresh [and apt-get update’d] install of Hardy Heron.

Here’s the issues I had as I went along:

The initial apt-get command: libaio has been renamed to libaio1.

The DISPLAY environment variable. had to switch to my normal user and type “xhost +” (after install is over type “xhost +localhost”), then back as the oracle user: “export DISPLAY=:0.0″

I also had an error appear:

“Error in invoking target ntcontab.o of makefile[…]”

For which I found this website:

http://traxel.com/oracle_linux.html

that suggested the following fix:

apt-get install gcc make manpages-dev autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb binutils

Which did in fact solve the problem.

I then recieved an error on the “Configuration Assistants” dialog: “OUI-25031:Some of the configuration assistants failed/cancelled.” Where, in the Details panel I traced it to “UnsatisfiedLinkError exception loading native library: njni11″

sudo apt-get install libaio1

solved the problem.

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By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:39:27 +0000

Thanks for this great tutorial. I had tried installing 11g on Fedora 9 64 bit, and I agree with others, 64 bit 11g for Linux is a nightmare. I would suggest making sure that you have all the required 32 bit and 64 bit libraries installed. In many cases I linked the 32 bit path to the 64 bit one, and it seemed to work.

Thanks for the great tutorial. I ran into many troubles with 8.04. If you get around to it, I’d love to see a good comprehensive tutorial on that.

BTW, for the user who asked earlier, my WPA on my iMac works flawlessly!

Thanks again for a great tutorial.

By: papaHub

papaHub — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:12:59 +0000

I installed oracle 11g and creeate a sample database. every work perfectely. But I cannot connect with the SYS user. In can not stop or start my database. There are some thing wrong on $HOME_ORACLE/lib like lib*

By: Alberto Tagliaferri

Alberto Tagliaferri — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:26:18 +0000

Great page, Augusto. It was extremely useful. My firsrt Oracle install on an unsupported Linux platform (our loved ubuntu) and it was “cut&paste”.
I mention 1 tip. Almost at the end, the Enterprise Configuration Assicant (emca.script) complaint on not getting what he exptets on /etc/oraIst.loc. This would have made emca happy before calling oraInst:
touch /etc/oraInst.loc
chown oracle /etc/oraInst.loc
chgrp dba /etc/oraInst.loc

Great page.
I’ve prepared my spirit for a 2 day fight and my db is up and running on 2 hours.
Thanks again,

Alberto.

By: alexander

alexander — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:50:57 +0000

Hola para los que tienen el problema:

Comprobando el monitor: debe estar configurado para mostrar al menos 256 colores
>>> No se ha podido ejecutar la comprobación automática de colores de visualización con el comando /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo. Compruebe si está definida la variable DISPLAY. Fallo <<<<

Fallo de algunas comprobaciones de requisitos. Debe cumplir estos requisitos antes de

continuar con la instalación,en cuyo momento se volverán a comprobar.

¿Desea continuar? (y/n) [n] n

lo pueden solucionar asi:
desde root colocan
xhost +local:oracle

y ya puede continuar con la instalacion

By: bojan

bojan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:19:34 +0000

fckn DISPLAY … just typed “xhost +” in terminal, and it worked…

By: Val

Val — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:05:57 +0000

… quick update to my post above. Take a look at /etc/oratab which lists the available services. By default, my install didn’t set databases to auto-start which prompted manual intervention after each reboot. In short, the last letter should be Y for autostart:
master:/opt/oracleHome:Y

That took care of it. Take a look at http://www.oracleutilities.com/OSUtil/dbstart.html for more info.

By: Val

Val — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:05:48 +0000

Matteo,

I have the same problem. I was able to connect to the web interface https://localhost:1158/em… (for exact url, see the output of the oracle startup script; it appears to generate port numbers randomly)
and from there I manually started the instance. Also, make sure your /bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash (not something else like /bin/dash, which doesn’t properly intepret some of the oracle scripts).

Regards,
Val

By: Matteo

Matteo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:15:11 +0000

I’ve followed all the instructions you kindly put in this tutorial but there are still problems after the installation has “successfully” finished. I’m installing on a 6.06 LTS ubuntu linux system. After a system reboot oracle was unable to open the database created during installation.
The first error I’gve found is this: I was not able to found the initORCL.ora file in the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/ folder . After some googling I’ve found a post in a mailing list suggesting to solve the problem simply doing a
cp init.ora initORCL.ora
after this I’m able to connect to sqlplus but ti cannot mount the database:

SQL> alter database mount;
alter database mount
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00205: error in identifying control file, check alert log for more info

I’ve tried to found the alert.log file but without luck …. I’ve also found a similar problem (also after some googling) in a mailing list but it seems to be originated by an spfile modification (which is not the case because all the files are expected to be created by the installer ……). Any help would be greatly appreciated … Im new to Oracle and I’m a little bit confused.

Matteo