Developer Release Oracle database 23c installation

Oracle database 23c installation on OEL - 

Oracle database 23c free developer release rpm based installation is illustrated here. We are using Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 for this 23c installation.

System Requirements - 

Operating system : Linux x86_64. 

RAM : 1GB minimum - 2GB recommended. 

Disk space : 10GB minimum. 

Swap : Minimum 2GB or twice of RAM allocated.

23c Database Developer Version Prerequisites -

Run these prerequisites command as "root" user.

1. dnf install -y oraclelinux-developer-release-el8

 Note -   dnf (Dandified YUM) is newer major version of yum. Package manager for rpm based Linux distributions.

[root@node1 ~]# dnf install -y oraclelinux-developer-release-el8 Last metadata expiration check: 4:47:48 ago on Mon 15 May 2023 04:15:49 PM CDT. Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================================= Installing: oraclelinux-developer-release-el8 x86_64 1.0-7.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 16 k Upgrading: oraclelinux-release-el8 x86_64 1.0-28.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 22 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package Upgrade 1 Package Total download size: 38 k Downloading Packages: (1/2): oraclelinux-developer-release-el8-1.0-7.el8.x86_64.rpm 13 kB/s | 16 kB 00:01 (2/2): oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-28.el8.x86_64.rpm 18 kB/s | 22 kB 00:01 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 31 kB/s | 38 kB 00:01 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Upgrading : oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-28.el8.x86_64 1/3 Running scriptlet: oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-28.el8.x86_64 1/3 Installing : oraclelinux-developer-release-el8-1.0-7.el8.x86_64 2/3 Cleanup : oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-4.el8.x86_64 3/3 Verifying : oraclelinux-developer-release-el8-1.0-7.el8.x86_64 1/3 Verifying : oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-28.el8.x86_64 2/3 Verifying : oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-4.el8.x86_64 3/3 Upgraded: oraclelinux-release-el8-1.0-28.el8.x86_64 Installed: oraclelinux-developer-release-el8-1.0-7.el8.x86_64 Complete!  

Run below command to install all prerequisites for installing 23c database.

Note - As part of below step "oracle" user, "oinstall" group will be be created.

2. dnf install -y oracle-database-preinstall-23c      [root@node1 ~]# dnf install -y oracle-database-preinstall-23c Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:44 ago on Mon 15 May 2023 09:12:21 PM CDT. Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================================= Installing: oracle-database-preinstall-23c x86_64 1.0-0.5.el8 ol8_developer 30 k Installing dependencies: compat-openssl10 x86_64 1:1.0.2o-4.el8_6 ol8_appstream 1.1 M ksh x86_64 20120801-257.0.1.el8 ol8_appstream 929 k libXxf86dga x86_64 1.1.5-1.el8 ol8_appstream 26 k libdmx x86_64 1.1.4-3.el8 ol8_appstream 22 k sysstat x86_64 11.7.3-7.0.1.el8_7.1 ol8_appstream 426 k xorg-x11-utils x86_64 7.5-28.el8 ol8_appstream 136 k libnsl x86_64 2.28-42.0.1.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 87 k lm_sensors-libs x86_64 3.4.0-23.20180522git70f7e08.el8 ol8_baseos_latest 59 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================================= Install 9 Packages Total download size: 2.8 M Installed size: 8.2 M Downloading Packages: (1/9): libXxf86dga-1.1.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm 22 kB/s | 26 kB 00:01 (2/9): libdmx-1.1.4-3.el8.x86_64.rpm 456 kB/s | 22 kB 00:00 (3/9): ksh-20120801-257.0.1.el8.x86_64.rpm 591 kB/s | 929 kB 00:01 (4/9): xorg-x11-utils-7.5-28.el8.x86_64.rpm 1.4 MB/s | 136 kB 00:00 (5/9): libnsl-2.28-42.0.1.el8.x86_64.rpm 1.7 MB/s | 87 kB 00:00 (6/9): compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64.rpm 671 kB/s | 1.1 MB 00:01 (7/9): lm_sensors-libs-3.4.0-23.20180522git70f7e08.el8.x86_64.rpm 1.5 MB/s | 59 kB 00:00 (8/9): oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm 898 kB/s | 30 kB 00:00 (9/9): sysstat-11.7.3-7.0.1.el8_7.1.x86_64.rpm 685 kB/s | 426 kB 00:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1.5 MB/s | 2.8 MB 00:01 Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : lm_sensors-libs-3.4.0-23.20180522git70f7e08.el8.x86_64 1/9 Running scriptlet: lm_sensors-libs-3.4.0-23.20180522git70f7e08.el8.x86_64 1/9 Installing : sysstat-11.7.3-7.0.1.el8_7.1.x86_64 2/9 Running scriptlet: sysstat-11.7.3-7.0.1.el8_7.1.x86_64 2/9 Installing : libnsl-2.28-42.0.1.el8.x86_64 3/9 Installing : libdmx-1.1.4-3.el8.x86_64 4/9 Installing : libXxf86dga-1.1.5-1.el8.x86_64 5/9 Installing : xorg-x11-utils-7.5-28.el8.x86_64 6/9 Installing : ksh-20120801-257.0.1.el8.x86_64 7/9 Running scriptlet: ksh-20120801-257.0.1.el8.x86_64 7/9 Installing : compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64 8/9 Running scriptlet: compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64 8/9 Installing : oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64 9/9 Running scriptlet: oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64 9/9 Verifying : compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64 1/9 Verifying : ksh-20120801-257.0.1.el8.x86_64 2/9 Verifying : libXxf86dga-1.1.5-1.el8.x86_64 3/9 Verifying : libdmx-1.1.4-3.el8.x86_64 4/9 Verifying : sysstat-11.7.3-7.0.1.el8_7.1.x86_64 5/9 Verifying : xorg-x11-utils-7.5-28.el8.x86_64 6/9 Verifying : libnsl-2.28-42.0.1.el8.x86_64 7/9 Verifying : lm_sensors-libs-3.4.0-23.20180522git70f7e08.el8.x86_64 8/9 Verifying : oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64 9/9 Installed: oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64 compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-4.el8_6.x86_64 ksh-20120801-257.0.1.el8.x86_64 libXxf86dga-1.1.5-1.el8.x86_64 libdmx-1.1.4-3.el8.x86_64 sysstat-11.7.3-7.0.1.el8_7.1.x86_64 xorg-x11-utils-7.5-28.el8.x86_64 libnsl-2.28-42.0.1.el8.x86_64 lm_sensors-libs-3.4.0-23.20180522git70f7e08.el8.x86_64 Complete!

Final step is to install database binaries. Download free database rpm (oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm) and place it on /tmp.

3. dnf -y localinstall oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

[root@node1 tmp]# dnf -y localinstall oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 0:19:15 ago on Mon 15 May 2023 09:12:21 PM CDT. Dependencies resolved. =================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size =================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: oracle-database-free-23c x86_64 1.0-1 @commandline 1.6 G Transaction Summary =================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package Total size: 1.6 G Installed size: 5.2 G Downloading Packages: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Running scriptlet: oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.x86_64 1/1 Installing : oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.x86_64 1/1 Running scriptlet: oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.x86_64 1/1 [INFO] Executing post installation scripts... [INFO] Oracle home installed successfully and ready to be configured. To configure Oracle Database Free, optionally modify the parameters in '/etc/sysconfig/oracle-free-23c.conf' and then run '/etc/init.d/oracle-free-23c configure' as root. Verifying : oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.x86_64 1/1 Installed: oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.x86_64 Complete!

For database creation.