{"id":474,"date":"2012-09-09T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2012-09-09T23:14:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T04:14:04","slug":"12-everywhere-installing-oracle-r12-on-ubuntu-12-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"12 Everywhere: Installing Oracle R12 on Ubuntu 12.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

I previously put together instructions for deploying Oracle Enterprise Business Suite<\/a> (EBS) 11i on Ubuntu<\/a> 7.04 (Installing Oracle eBusiness Suite on Ubuntu<\/a>). In this go-round, I am working through the steps to deploy the latest release of Oracle’s ERP (R12) on the latest Ubuntu server platform, 12.04. Although Ubuntu is not an Oracle-supported platform for R12, it is a stable, well-maintained, and popular Linux environment, with tremendous acceptance and community support. This makes it a great candidate for some third-party investigation on the steps required to render it a suitable infrastructure choice for ERP deployment.
\nI won’t repeat\u00a0 the mechanism for procuring the install media for R12; this was covered in my original 11i\/Ubuntu post<\/a>. It has all\u00a0 the instructions for\u00a0 downloading R12 from the Oracle\u00ae E-Delivery Web site<\/span> (http:\/\/edelivery.oracle.com\/<\/a>), as well as how to prepare the staging folder for the R12 install (Installing Oracle eBusiness Suite on Ubuntu \u2013 II<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The following\u00a0 instructions also assume that R12 is being installed on a 32-bit Ubuntu Precise (12.04) server environment. Since this is for demo purposes that uses the preset Oracle EBS Vision instance, I used\u00a0 a throw-away VirtualBox<\/a> environment with 400 GB of storage, and 4 GB of RAM allocated. Since the base Ubuntu server install does not have a GUI out of the box, I\u00a0 installed the ubuntu-desktop package:<\/p>\n

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop<\/strong><\/p>\n

This permitted me to perform\u00a0 my installation investigations easily, and then dispose of the environment quickly and easily to stay within Oracle licensing guidelines. So, on to the steps.<\/p>\n

Prerequisites<\/strong><\/p>\n

i. Create oracle<\/strong> user in the Ubuntu 12 environment to own the oracle installation.<\/p>\n

$ sudo adduser oracle<\/strong><\/p>\n

ii. Create group dba, and add oracle user to the dba group to allow Oracle DBMS system admin login and management of the 11g RDBMS.<\/p>\n

\u00a0$ sudo adduser oracle dba<\/strong><\/p>\n

iii. Sign in as the new oracle user, and ensure that the stage directory is available. For my purposes, I copied the stage folder into the oracle home\u00a0 in a sub-directory stage12i<\/strong>.
\niv.\u00a0 Update software and dependent packages for the install:<\/p>\n

Unzip<\/span><\/p>\n

Download unzip version 5.52 from http:\/\/launchpadlibrarian.net\/12763424\/unzip_5.52-10ubuntu1.1_i386.deb<\/a><\/p>\n

Remove current version using:<\/p>\n

oracle@madara:~$ sudo apt-get remove unzip<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then install 5.52 version using:<\/p>\n

oracle@madara:~$ sudo dpkg -i ‘unzip_5.52-10ubuntu1.1_i386.deb’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oracle 11gR2 dependencies<\/span><\/p>\n

Install the following packages to meet library dependency requirements:<\/p>\n

oracle@madara:~$ sudo apt-get install alien binutils build-essential cpp-4.4 debhelper g++-4.4 gawk gcc-4.4 gcc-4.4-base gettext html2text intltool-debian ksh lesstif2 bzip2 lib64z1 libaio-dev libaio1 libbeecrypt7 libc6 libc6-dev libdb4.8 libelf-dev libelf1 libltdl-dev libltdl7 libmotif4 libodbcinstq4-1 libodbcinstq4-1:i386 libqt4-core libqt4-gui libsqlite3-0 libstdc++5 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.4-dev lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lsb-qt4 make odbcinst pax po-debconf rpm rpm-common sysstat unixodbc unixodbc-dev libdb1-compat<\/strong><\/p>\n

v. Configure kernel parameters:<\/p>\n

First check the current kernel parameter values:<\/p>\n

oracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep sem<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep shm<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep file-max<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep ip_local_port_range<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep rmem_default<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep rmem_max<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep wmem_default<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$ sysctl -a | grep wmem_max<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then edit the \/etc\/sysctl.conf<\/strong> and add the following lines:<\/p>\n

fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576\r\nfs.file-max = 6815744\r\nkernel.shmall = 2097152\r\nkernel.shmmax = 536870912\r\nkernel.shmmni = 4096\r\nkernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128\r\nnet.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500\r\nnet.core.rmem_default = 262144\r\nnet.core.rmem_max = 4194304\r\nnet.core.wmem_default = 262144\r\nnet.core.wmem_max = 1048586<\/pre>\n
Run the following command to reload these kernel parameters:<\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$ sudo sysctl -p<\/strong><\/p>\n
vi.\u00a0 Put in a fake Redhat flag file to fool the installer:<\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$ sudo echo ‘Red Hat Linux release 5’ > \/etc\/redhat-release<\/strong><\/p>\n
vii. Link expected locations for dependency library files to the source files in Ubuntu:<\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/libgcc_s.so.1 \/usr\/lib\/<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/usr\/bin\/awk \/bin\/awk<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/usr\/bin\/basename \/bin\/basename<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/usr\/bin\/rpm \/bin\/rpm<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/usr\/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/libc_nonshared.a \/usr\/lib\/<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/usr\/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/libpthread_nonshared.a \/usr\/lib\/<\/strong>
\noracle@madara:~$sudo ln -s \/usr\/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/libstdc++.so.6 \/usr\/lib\/<\/strong><\/p>\n
viii. Verify shared memory is configured correctly for the 11g database:<\/p>\n
Check shared memory device \/run\/shm<\/strong> with command:<\/p>\n
$ df -hk<\/strong><\/p>\n
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<\/p>\n
\/dev\/mapper\/madara-root 409441664 59198564 329444636 16% \/<\/p>\n
udev 1553456 4 1553452 1% \/dev<\/p>\n
tmpfs 624404 948 623456 1% \/run<\/p>\n
none 5120 0 5120 0% \/run\/lock<\/p>\n
none 1561008 156 1560852 1% \/run\/shm<\/p>\n
cgroup 1561008 0 1561008 0% \/sys\/fs\/cgroup<\/p>\n
\/dev\/sda1 233191 46981 173769 22% \/boot<\/p>\n
Update \/etc\/fstab<\/strong>, adding line below to change the shared memory \/run\/shm\/<\/strong> filesystem from none to tmpfs:<\/p>\n
tmpfs \/run\/shm tmpfs defaults,noexec,nosuid 0 0 <\/strong><\/p>\n
ix. Reboot to make sure kernel params and shared memory change are detected.<\/p>\n
x. Create the instance directory for the R12 install, setting the permissions so it can be updated by the oracle owner:<\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$ sudo mkdir \/d01<\/strong><\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$ sudo chmod 777 \/d01<\/strong><\/p>\n
xi. Run the R12 Rapid Installer:<\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$\u00a0cd stage12i\/startCD\/Disk1\/rapidwiz<\/strong><\/p>\n
oracle@madara:~$\u00a0.\/rapidwiz<\/strong><\/p>\n
Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system……<\/p>\n
4 dvd labels found<\/p>\n
Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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R12 Framework main screen<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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These instructions are in no way a substitute for careful analysis and assessment of the requirements and purpose for a production R12 instance. However,\u00a0 hopefully this provides some guidance on the technical hurdles and resolutions to deploying R12 on an unsupported Linux variant.<\/p>\n
References:<\/p>\n
(Instant Client downloads for Linux x86:) http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/topics\/linuxsoft-082809.html<\/a><\/p>\n
(Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Ubuntu 12.04 HOWTO) http:\/\/edin.no-ip.com\/comment\/418<\/a><\/p>\n
(Oracle Application R12 (12.1.3) Installation on Red Hat Linux – 64 bit) https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/ptian\/entry\/oracle_application_r12_12_1<\/a><\/p>\n
(Oracle EBS Vision Demo Default Application Passwords) http:\/\/swimmingpooldotnet.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/29\/oracle-ebs-vision-demo-default-application-passwords\/<\/a><\/p>\n
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