Comments on: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

By: Susan Salkeld

Susan Salkeld — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:27:09 +0000

Thanks Rafi! I was having trouble with the display as well. I used your instructions with one extra step due to an error. Also, I used these instructions on Ubuntu 9.10. Thank you to everyone involved on the page – it is VERY useful.

ongroup@lorax:~$ xauth extract /tmp/xauth.key $DISPLAY && chmod 644 /tmp/xauth.key
ongroup@lorax:~$ sudo su – oracle
[sudo] password for ongroup:
oracle@lorax:~$ xauth merge /tmp/xauth.key
oracle@lorax:~$ xhost +
xhost: unable to open display “”
(this is the error I received)

oracle@lorax:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
oracle@lorax:~$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

oracle@lorax:~$ cd /media/database/
oracle@lorax:/media/database$ ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
Starting Oracle Universal Installer…

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 257333 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 11515 MB Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2010-03-20_01-15-32PM. Please wait …oracle@lorax:/media/database$ Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.1.0.6.0 Production
Copyright (C) 1999, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

By: Mike Smithers

Mike Smithers — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:49:37 +0000

Thanks for a really comprehensive guide. I’ve used this as a basis for working out how to deploy 11g Release 2 on Ubuntu 9.10.
The steps for this are at :
http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/installing-oracle-11gr2-on-ubuntu-9-10

By: Installing Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu 9.10 « The Anti-Kyte

Installing Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu 9.10 « The Anti-Kyte — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:46:48 +0000

[...] Installing the server and setting up ssh Tunneling X over SSH I also setup a SAMBA share on the server. This is not directly relevant to the Oracle setup but I’ve included a link to it here as it serves to complete the picture of the state of the server before I started the installation. It also has a section on mounting a USB stick on the server, which may be relevant when it comes to transferring the Oracle files onto the server. Whilst I’m mentioning links, I should acknowledge the helpful information I got from here and especially here. [...]

By: marceli

marceli — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:33:07 +0000

@Aaron
try also ./dbca instead of dbca

By: marceli

marceli — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:31:03 +0000

@Aaron
export $ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
su oracle $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca

By: lardy

lardy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:46:49 +0000

If any one is having link errors with the ins_ctx.mk file you can try installing the libstdc++.so.5 library. I had this problem and when I ran the ‘make’ command manually it compalined that this library could not be found.

Cheers

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:59:34 +0000

It looks as even though it allows the dbca to launch it cannot create the database since that account does not have the rights. Does anyone know how to use the oracle account to run dbca? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:45:07 +0000

I have found that dbca (Database Configuration Assistance) will not run when I switch to being the oracle user ie su – oracle. However, if I use the original account that was setup on the system, dbca launches without a problem. Additionally, I tested using the root account but it too acts the same as with the oracle account.

The error is:
No command ‘dbca’ found, did you mean:
Command ‘dba’ from package ‘wise’ (universal)
Command ‘dbck’ from package ‘lyskom-server’ (universal)
dbca: command not found

By: Shanthi

Shanthi — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:46:05 +0000

I am getting linking errors.
Exception Name: MakefileException
Exception String: Error in invoking target ‘install’ of makefile ‘/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk’

What packages did you install?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:54:59 +0000

I’m getting this error trying to install oracle 10g on Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit):

“./runInstaller: line 52: /media/database/install/.oui: No such file or directory”

The file exists and the permissions are fine.

Did anyone with the same problem resolve it? Peep, looks like you had the problem and the next day you were done installing… please help :)