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1.     Open a terminal window. Login as the root user.

2.      Create the following operating system groups: oinstall, dba, and, oper.

/usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall

/usr/sbin/groupadd dba

/usr/sbin/groupadd oper

3.     Create the operating system user oracle:

/usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -d /home/oracle oracle

4.     Enter the following command to set the password of the oracle user:

/usr/sbin/passwd oracle

5.     With an editor of your choice, edit /home/oracle/.bash_profile to include the following entries:

umask 022

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle

ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1

ORACLE_SID=orcl

$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/i386/server:

$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID

6.     Create the directory for the software installation and assign ownership to oracle:oinstall.

mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle

chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app

chmod -R 775 /u01/app

7.     Open the /etc/sysctl.conf file in any text editor and add lines similar to the following:

kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128

kernel.shmall = 2097152

kernel.shmmax = 2147483648

kernel.shmmni = 4096

fs.file-max = 65536

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000

net.core.rmem_default = 262144

net.core.rmem_max = 262144

net.core.wmem_default = 262144

net.core.wmem_max = 262144

8.     Issue the following command to set the kernel parameters:

/sbin/sysctl -p

9.  To see which versions of these packages are installed on your system, run the following command:

rpm -q binutils compat-db control-center gcc gcc-c++ glibc glibc-common \
gnome-libs libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make pdksh sysstat xscreensaver libaio openmotif21

10. To install package:

rpm -Uvh glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.13.i386.rpm

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