Installing Oracle 11g R2 in Ubuntu 10.04

Question

Initial Problem

I was installing Oracle 11g Release 2 Enterprise edition in Ubuntu 10.04 ( running on VMWARE ). Need help regarding that.

Problem #1:

I was following

• https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1115155
• http://www.pythian.com/news/13291/installing-oracle-11gr2-enterprise-edition-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/

Both are recommending to install

• libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb
• ia32-libs_2.7ubuntu6.1_amd64.deb

But I'm getting a 404 to when applying wget

Problem 2:

I skipped this part to see the end and finally I'm stuck on running below commands

$ cd database
$ ./runInstaller

Its throwing error like

/opt/database/runInstaller: 153: /opt/database/install/.oui: Permission denied

Problem Phase 2

Thnx Sathya
Finally I could get rid of Initial Problem. It was silly permission problem. But now stuck in another. When im running

./runInstaller

first it is showing following failure

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB.   Actual 10055 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 894 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors
>>> Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set.    Failed <<<<

If I ignore this check and press y to continue, it shows

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
    at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:821)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:804)
    at com.jgoodies.looks.LookUtils.isLowResolution(Unknown Source)
    at com.jgoodies.looks.LookUtils.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at com.jgoodies.looks.plastic.PlasticLookAndFeel.<clinit>(PlasticLookAndFeel.java:122)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
    at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.loadSystemClass(SwingUtilities.java:1783)
    at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:480)
    at oracle.install.commons.util.Application.startup(Application.java:758)
    at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:164)
    at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:181)
    at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.startup(Installer.java:265)
    at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.startup(DBInstaller.java:114)
    at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.main(DBInstaller.java:132)

As my ubuntu is running on VMWARE, may be its not getting the display properties properly. Also as a clarification I m doing

DISPLAY=oracle:0.0 ; export DISPLAY

here oracle is the output of

whoami

Any suggestion?

Bearden

@finding_1: This problem occurs only from oracle user. If I try the same with default user account, everything works just fine. But i need this from oracle user :( @finding_2: xter, xclock are not working in oracle user but work in default user. – Bearden

Answer 1

Finally I got it fixed.
using

xhost +

Now I can see that this was recommended in different forums. However, lets include the steps here also :)

1. log into console as root and open a terminal window within CDE
2. DISPLAY=:0.0
3. export DISPLAY
4. xhost +
5. su - oracle
6. DISPLAY=:0.0
7. export DISPLAY
8. /user/openwin/bin/xclock - Launched xclock this way to ensure it was working, and it was
9. Changed back to the directory where the runInstaller was and launched.

Collected from https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=569326

Bearden

I think it's only fair that you mark your answer as accepted, considering that these are the steps that helped you fix your problem – Indonesian

oh... i was a bit confused to do so However... thnx :) – Bearden

Oh god, Thank you, finally resolved by your help. thanks alot – Mucronate

Thank you so much I spent like half a day to figure it out and then I read your solution :) very happy – Liquesce

why I have to run these commands each time when server restarted? – Agist

Just a quick thought, how about adding these commands in your bashrc? – Bearden

Answer 2

FYI for others looking at this and still stuck - I still had the issue:

Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set.FailedCould not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set. Failed

Even after getting xclock to load (on RHEL) for the oracle user. In the end, my issue was '/usr/bin/xdpyinfo' wasn't installed, I was missing xorg-x11-utils.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg02702.html

Crying

Answer 3

If you are running database server in command-line mode(runlevel 3),and your client is windows, you should run an X server on your client machine like Xming server

also if you use Putty to connect to the server,X11 forwarding should be enabled without any location address changing. No DISPLAY environment needed. Putty automatically forwards all x commands from the server to your client machine running Xming server. Hope this helps.

Monochrome

Answer 4

Both are recommending to install

This isn't required if you're installing a 32-bit version of Oracle or using a 32-bit version of Ubuntu. (and note: you haven't mentioned which one you're using

I skipped this part to see the end and finally I'm stuck on running below commands

Have you done as mentioned or skipped the entire steps? Intermediate steps involve creating an oracle user & adding the usergroups - seems like you skipped these.

Indonesian

@Sathiya: i followed the whole step again from the very beginning and this time could successfully run it. But again im stuck on Second Phase Problem. Need help again about this... – Bearden

Answer 5

Assume you are using oracle to run the installer as suggested by the manual, you only need to run two commands (run from account with sudo access)

DISPLAY=:4.0; export DISPLAY
xhost +SI:local user:oracle

After that, go back to the tab with oracle and you should be able to run installer now.

Insanitary