Step by Step Installation of Oracle Database 12c on Solaris 10

In this article we will look at Installing Oracle 12C database on Solaris x86 64bit version. This article assumes that you already had Solaris 10 installed on Virtualbox.

Preparing System for Installation

The first step toward Oracle installation is to perform the pre-installation tasks.

Configuring hosts file

The first step is to properly name your host machine. The hostname should properly be provided with IP address for installation to continue. Ideally, your /etc/hosts file should look something like this.

192.168.34.47   sol10.cm

127.0.0.1 localhost

Kernel Parameters

The default installation of Solaris 10 is normally good enough for oracle database installation. You just have to configure one parameter. Use the command below to set the required kernel parameters. Remember that you will have to use the root login to run the commands.

# projadd  -K "project.max-shm-memory=(privileged,4G,deny)" user.oracle

To confirm that parameter has been changed you can view the contents of /etc/project file.

# cat /etc/project

Setting UDP and TCP Kernel Parameters.

# /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 9000

# /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_largest_anon_port 65500

# /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/udp udp_smallest_anon_port 9000

# /usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/udp udp_largest_anon_port 65500

Required Packages

You can check if packages required for Oracle are installed or not using the following command.

 # pkginfo -i SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibC SUNWlibm SUNWlibms SUNWsprot SUNWtoo SUNWi1of SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs SUNWxwfnt SUNWcsl

 If any of the packages is not installed, you can install these packages as below, one by one.

# pkg install SUNWhea

Note Swap size minimum 3G!!
Make sure your swap size is atleast 3G if not increase the swap size with the commands below
# mkfile 1024m /export/home/oracle/oracle_swap
# swap -a /export/home/oracle/oracle_swap

Creating Oracle user, groups and directories

The last step is to create oracle user groups and directories and set appropriate permissions and environment.

# groupadd oper

# groupadd dba

# groupadd oinstall

# useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -d /export/home/oracle -s /usr/bin/bash oracle

# passwd oracle

# mkdir -p mkdir /export/home/oracle

# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/12.0.1/db_1

# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01 /export/home/oracle

# chmod -R 775 /u01

Finally, add the following lines at the end of .profile file in Oracle user home directory.

# su – oracle

# vi .profile

# Oracle Settings

TMP=/tmp; export TMP

TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR

ORACLE_HOSTNAME=sol10.cm; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME

ORACLE_UNQNAME=CDB12C; export ORACLE_UNQNAME

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE

ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/12.0.1/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME

ORACLE_SID=CDB12C; export ORACLE_SID

PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH

DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY

Installing Oracle 12C

You are now ready to install Oracle 12C database on your system. Log in as Oracle user, create an installation directory under /export/home/oracle and copy the installation files to that directory.

$ mkdir -p /export/home/oracle/inst

Extract both files uzing unzip utility, and start the installation

$ unzip solaris.x64_12102_database_1of2.zip

$ unzip solaris.x64_12102_database_2of2.zip

$ cd database

$ ./runInstaller

 Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 180 MB. Actual 4369 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 4751 MB Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from OraInstall2019-09-12_03-41-17PM. Please wait ...

The installer will start and you will see the screen like below.

 You can skip this step and click Next.

 Choose Install and Configure database option and click Next.

 Select on Server class and click Next.

 Choose single instance installation and click Next.

 Select the Typical install method and click Next.

 Here you provide most of the options like Oracle base and home directories and also password for admin accounts. The last checkbox is important. If you check it then you will have to provide one PDB name. If you uncheck it then database will be created as Non Container database, the same as it would have been before 12C version. You obviously would want the database to be Container database. Click Next.

 Provide the location of Oracle Inventory and also the OS group who will own it. Click Next.

 Click on Fix & Check Again.

 This is the Install summary. Click Install once you are OK with all the options.

 The installation normally takes sometime to complete.

Once the installation is complete, you will be asked the run the scripts as root.

# /u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh

Changing permissions of /u01/app/oraInventory.

Adding read, write permissions for group.

Removing read, write, execute permissions for world.

Changing groupname of /u01/app/oraInventory to oinstall.

The execution of the script is complete.

# /u01/app/oracle/product/12.0.1/db_1/root.sh

Performing root user operation for Oracle 12c

The following environment variables are set as:

ORACLE_OWNER= oracle

ORACLE_HOME= /u01/app/oracle/product/12.0.1/db_1

Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:

Creating /usr/local/bin directory...

Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ...

Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ...

Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...

Creating /var/opt/oracle/oratab file...

Entries will be added to the /var/opt/oracle/oratab file as needed by

Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created

Finished running generic part of root script.

Now product-specific root actions will be performed.

Once you are done with that go back on Installer screen and click OK.

The installation will continue with configuration.

Once database has been created, you will be asked to do some password management. You can always do this later. Click OK to finish the installation.

Click Close to exit the Installer.

Oracle 12c Database Installation On Solaris is successful.

Post Installation

You now log into your database to confirm if database has been created and configured.

-bash-3.2$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Thu Sep 12 16:51:59 2019

Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to:

Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select instance_name from v$instance;

INSTANCE_NAME

----------------

CDB12C

You can check which PDBs are configured and also you can log into PDB from within CDB as well.

SQL> select name, open_mode from v$pdbs;

NAME                           OPEN_MODE

------------------------------ ----------

PDB$SEED                       READ ONLY

PDB1                           READ WRITE

SQL> alter session set container=PDB1;

Session altered.

SQL> select file_name from dba_data_files;

FILE_NAME

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

/u01/app/oracle/oradata/CDB12C/PDB1/example01.dbf

/u01/app/oracle/oradata/CDB12C/PDB1/SAMPLE_SCHEMA_users01.dbf

/u01/app/oracle/oradata/CDB12C/PDB1/sysaux01.dbf

/u01/app/oracle/oradata/CDB12C/PDB1/system01.dbf

You have successfully installed Oracle 12c Database on a virtual machine running Solaris 10!!