Client Installation Guide - Oracle

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Client Installation Guide

12c Release 2 (12.2) for Linux

E85761-06 November 2021

Oracle Database Client Installation Guide, 12c Release 2 (12.2) for Linux

E85761-06

Copyright ? 2015, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Primary Author: Prakash Jashnani

Contributing Authors: Douglas Williams

Contributors: Smitha Viswanathan, Neha Avasthy, Prasad Bagal, Subhranshu Banerjee, Jean-Francois Verrier, Tammy Bednar, Kiran Chamala, Jonathan Creighton, Benoit Dageville, Sudip Datta, Jim Erickson, Marcus Fallen, Joseph Francis, Subrahmanyam Kodavaluru, Allan Graves, Barbara Glover, Asad Hasan, Thirumaleshwara Hasandka, Clara Jaeckel, Aneesh Khandelwal, Joel Kallman, Eugene Karichkin, Jai Krishnani, Sangeeth Kumar, Ranjith Kundapur, Kevin Jernigan, Christopher Jones, Angad Gokakkar, Bryn Llewellyn, Saar Maoz, Sreejith Minnanghat, Gopal Mulagund, Sue Lee, Rich Long, Barb Lundhild, Rudregowda Mallegowda, Subhash Chandra, Mughees Minhas, Krishna Mohan, Matthew McKerley, John McHugh, Gurudas Pai, Satish Panchumarthy , Rajesh Prasad, Rajendra Pingte, Richard Roddy, Srinivas Poovala, Mohammed Shahnawaz Quadri, Hanlin Qian, Gurumurthy Ramamurthy, Hema Ramamurthy, Sunil Ravindrachar, Mark Richwine, Dipak Saggi, Trivikrama Samudrala, Shachi Sanklecha, David Schreiner, Mohit Singhal, Dharma Sirnapalli, Akshay Shah, James Spiller, Roy Swonger, Binoy Sukumaran, Kalambhatti Prashanth, Ravi Thammaiah, Shekhar Vaggu, Ajesh Viswambharan, Peter Wahl, Terri Winters, Sergiusz Wolicki, Sivakumar Yarlagadda, Zakia Zerhouni

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Contents

Preface

Audience

vii

Documentation Accessibility

vii

Command Syntax

vii

Related Documentation

viii

Conventions

ix

1 Oracle Database Client Installation Checklist

Server Hardware Checklist for Oracle Database Client Installation

1-1

Operating System Checklist for Oracle Database Client on Linux

1-2

Server Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Client

1-3

Oracle User Environment Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation

1-5

Storage Checklist for Oracle Database Client

1-6

Installer Planning Checklist for Oracle Database Client

1-6

2 Checking and Configuring Server Hardware for Oracle Database Client

Logging In to a Remote System Using X Window System

2-1

Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration

2-2

3 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle Database Client on Linux

About Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices About Operating System Requirements Operating System Requirements for x86-64 Linux Platforms

Supported Oracle Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64 Supported Oracle Linux 7 Distributions for x86-64 Supported Oracle Linux 6 Distributions for x86-64 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for x86-64 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Distributions for x86-64

3-1 3-2 3-2 3-2 3-4 3-6 3-7 3-9 3-11 3-12

iii

Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Distributions for x86-64 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Distributions for x86-64 Supported NeoKylin Linux Advanced Server 7 Distributions for x86-64 Operating System Requirements for IBM: Linux on System z Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z Additional Drivers and Software Packages for Linux Installing PAM for Login Authentication on Linux Installing Oracle Messaging Gateway Installation Requirements for ODBC and LDAP

About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database Installing ODBC Drivers for Linux x86-64 About LDAP and Oracle Plug-ins Installing the LDAP Package Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux x86-64 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for IBM: Linux on System z Installation Requirements for Web Browsers Checking Kernel and Package Requirements for Linux

3-14 3-15 3-17 3-17 3-18 3-19 3-20 3-21 3-22 3-22 3-22 3-23 3-23 3-23 3-23 3-23 3-24

3-24 3-25 3-25

4 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Database

Client

Required Operating System Groups and Users

4-1

Determining If an Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exist

4-2

Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist

4-2

About Oracle Installation Owner Accounts

4-3

Identifying an Oracle Software Owner User Account

4-3

Creating Operating System Oracle Installation User Accounts

4-4

Creating an Oracle Software Owner User

4-4

Environment Requirements for Oracle Software Owners

4-4

Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments

4-5

Setting Remote Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration

4-7

Unsetting Oracle Installation Owner Environment Variables

4-8

5 Installing Oracle Database Client

Accessing the Installation Software

5-1

Downloading Oracle Software

5-2

Downloading the Installation Archive Files from OTN

5-2

iv

Downloading the Software from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud Portal

5-2

Copying the Software to the Hard Disk

5-3

Mounting Disks on Linux Systems

5-3

Installing the Oracle Database Client Software

5-4

Running Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle Database Client

5-4

Using Oracle Net Configuration Assistant

5-5

About Character Set Selection During Installation

5-6

Running Oracle Universal Installer in Different Languages

5-7

6 Oracle Database Client Postinstallation Tasks

Required Postinstallation Tasks

6-1

Downloading and Installing Patch Updates

6-1

Recommended Postinstallation Tasks

6-2

Creating a Backup of the root.sh Script

6-2

Setting Language and Locale Preferences for Client Connections

6-2

7 Removing Oracle Database Software

About Oracle Deinstallation Options

7-1

Oracle Deinstallation Tool (Deinstall)

7-3

Deinstallation Examples for Oracle Database Client

7-5

A Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files

How Response Files Work

A-1

Reasons for Using Silent Mode or Response File Mode

A-2

Using Response Files

A-2

Preparing Response Files

A-3

Editing a Response File Template

A-3

Recording Response Files

A-5

Running Oracle Universal Installer Using a Response File

A-6

Index

v

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