Installing Oracle9i (9.2.0) on Red Hat Linux 7.3-8.0

Run the Oracle Installer
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As the "oracle" user account:

The "Link" phase will now successfully continue to 100% complete. When the "Link" phase is complete, you will be prompted to run the $ORACLE_HOME/root.sh script as the "root" user account. Go ahead and perform this action. When prompted for the "local bin directory," I generally choose to put the files in /opt/bin keeping with by old conventions of Solaris. You may choose to use the default of /usr/local/bin if you would like. Just make sure that whatever directory you choose that it is in the PATH environment variable of the "oracle" user account.

After running the root.sh script in the above step, you have successfully installed the Oracle9i RDBMS software. At the "End of Installation" screen, simply hit the "Exit" button. A few seconds after hitting the "Exit" button will bring up "Oracle Enterprise Manager" (OEM). I generally exit from the OEM application as I keep a central repository for all nodes and databases. From here, it is time to create the O920DB Oracle database. In the Configuration files/scripts section of this document, I put together an example initO920DB.ora instance parameter file along with a set of CREATE DATABASE... scripts in an archive named create_database920.tar.

Good Luck!

Errors during the relink phase of the install
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During the "Link Phase" of the install, you will get an error while trying to make/install CTX. (The same issue exists in 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux).

The following errors will exist in $ORACLE_HOME/install/make.log
/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `__ctype_b_loc@GLIBC_2.3'
/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `_dl_addr@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `_dl_open@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `_dl_close@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `_dl_sym@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
/lib/libdl.so.2: undefined reference to `_dl_vsym@GLIBC_PRIVATE'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ctxhx] Error 1

This error occurs when the following is executed:
/usr/bin/make -f ins_ctx.mk install ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/9.2.0

Solution

The solution is to edit the file $ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib/env_ctx.mk and go to "INSO_LINK =", add a "$(LDLIBFLAG)dl" to the line and save it.

Here is the full line with the added "$(LDLIBFLAG)dl" flag:

INSO_LINK = -L$(CTXLIB) $(LDLIBFLAG)m $(LDLIBFLAG)dl $(LDLIBFLAG)sc_ca
$(LDLIBFLAG)sc_fa $(LDLIBFLAG)sc_ex $(LDLIBFLAG)sc_da $(LDLIBFLAG)sc_ut
$(LDLIBFLAG)sc_ch $(LDLIBFLAG)sc_fi $(LLIBCTXHX) $(LDLIBFLAG)c -Wl,-
rpath,$(CTXHOME)lib $(CORELIBS) $(COMPEOBJS)

Set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

You will also need to enter LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 in your .profile (or .bash_profile if you are using BASH) for the "oracle" user account so that they you can run programs like "dbssist" and "netca".

Return and retry

After making the above change, return to the popup error dialog box and hit "Retry". It should continue from here with no errors.

Configuration files/scripts
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