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Let us consider we are installing Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12 (12.1.1) on Sun Solaris 10 on SPARC 64 bit platform.

First of all following pre-requisites must be checked at the Operating System level.



Packages

SUNWarc

SUNWbtool

SUNWcsl

SUNWhea

SUNWi15cs

SUNWi1cs

SUNWi1of

SUNWlibC

SUNWlibm

SUNWlibms

SUNWsprot

SUNWtoo

SUNWuiu8

SUNWulcf

SUNWxwfnt

Patches

• 125100-04 or higher
• 120473-05 or higher
• 127111-02 or higher
• 137111-04 or higher

Kernel parameters in /etc/system

rlim_fd_max                                     65536

noexec_user_stack                        1

semsys:seminfo_semmni            100

semsys:seminfo_semmsl             256

shmsys:shminfo_shmmax           4294967295

shmsys:shminfo_shmmni            100

ulimit Value Settings

Verify that the owner of the Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database server file systems have the following ‘ulimit’ values:

• time (seconds) = unlimited
• file (blocks) = unlimited
• data (kbytes) = unlimited
• stack (kbytes) = unlimited
• memory (kbytes) = unlimited
• coredump (blocks) = unlimited
• nofiles (descriptors) = 65536

Java requirements

JDK 6 (bundled with R12, no need to manually install)

Operating system utilities

• ar
• ld
• make
• X Display Server
• ldd
• gcc
• g++

Next step is to create required users.

groupadd dba

useradd -g dba oradev

useradd -g dba appldev

passwd oradev

New Password:

Re-enter new Password:

passwd: password successfully changed for oradev

passwd appldev

New Password:

Re-enter new Password:

passwd: password successfully changed for appldev

Now let’s create required directories as root.

mkdir /u01

mkdir /u01/oracle

mkdir /u01/oracle/ERPDEV

mkdir /u01/oracle/ERPDEV/db

mkdir /u01/oracle/ERPDEV/apps

chown oradev:dba /u01

chown oradev:dba /u01/oracle

chown oradev:dba /u01/oracle/ERPDEV

chown oradev:dba /u01/oracle/ERPDEV/db

chown appldev:dba /u01/oracle/ERPDEV/apps

Create Staging area or else you can directly install from DVDs but you may need to switch DVDs during the installation.

Here we have created Staging directory as /u01/R12stage/

There are multiple ways for creating staging areas. The simplest method is to copy all DVD contents to Staging directory in following subfolders.

startCD,  oraDB, oraAppDB, oraApps, oraAS,  NLS-<Language> (if installing NLS)

Or else you can use adautostg.pl to create a staging area automatically.

ORATraining Tip: Execute the following to avoid unexpected errors during the installation since we are doing multiuser installation.
chmod 777 /tmp

ORATraining tip: Sometimes it has been noticed on some Solaris based installation that installation will throw following error.

/u01/R12stage/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/rapidwiz: whoami: not found

Execute the following before starting the installation to avoid the issue.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/ucb/

Starting the installation:

cd /u01/R12stage/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz

./rapidwiz

ORATraining tip: You can also execute directly with the path like “/u01/R12stage/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/rapidwiz/rapidwiz” to avoid selecting DVDs at the end of every component installation.

ORATraining Tip: Sometimes you may encounter following error after starting the installation.

/u01/R12stage/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/rapidwiz: /tmp/RapidInstall/bin/runWizard.sh: cannot execute

Execute the following to fix this if you encounter the same.

chmod 777 /u01/R12stage/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/bin

Welcome Screen:

Do not change anything in this screen unless you are upgrading existing Oracle Applications release. Express release will go with many default parameters and skip certain steps but not recommended for an Apps DBA.

Keep these blank if installing on test machine. This can always be filled later. You will need a valid CSI number and associated email id for this.

No not change anything in this screen unless you are restarting a failed installation or installing on secondary nodes in case of multinode installation.

Select a port pool here. All default ports will be added by a number selected in port pool and those ports will be assigned accordingly. For example with port pool 10, default ports will change as follows.

Web Server port will become 8010 (8000 + 10)

Forms port will become 9010 (9000 + 10)

Reports port will become 7010 (7000 + 10)

and so on..