Oracle® Database Database Installation Guide 19c for Linux E96432-19 July 2021 Oracle Database Database Installation Guide, 19c for Linux E96432-19 Copyright © 2015, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Primary Authors: Prakash Jashnani, Subhash Chandra Contributing Authors: Douglas Williams Contributors: Jean-Francois Verrier, Richard Roddy, Neha Avasthy, Sampath Ravindhran, Prasad Bagal, Subhranshu Banerjee, Gerald Venzl, Tammy Bednar, Avi Miller, Gavin Bowe, Gia-Khanh Nguyen, Darcy Christensen, Kiran Chamala, Jonathan Creighton, Benoit Dageville, Logeshwaran Rajan, Rajesh Dasari, Angad Gokakkar , Anu Natarajan, Girdhari Ghantiyala, Bernard Clouse, Chandrasekharan Iyer, Anil Nair, Sivaram Soma, Lisa Vaz, Ranjit Noronha, Vasu Venkatasubramanian, Sumanta Chatterjee, Margaret Susairaj, Malai Stalin, Markus Michalewicz, Subrahmanyam Kodavaluru, Sudip Datta, Madhu Hunasigi, Jim Erickson, Marcus Fallen, Joseph Francis, Allan Graves, Barbara Glover, Asad Hasan, Thirumaleshwara Hasandka, Putta Ramesh, Sergio Leunissen, Aneesh Khandelwal, Joel Kallman, Eugene Karichkin, Jai Krishnani, Prasad K Kulkarni, Ranjith Kundapur, Balaji Pagadala, Christopher Jones, Tak Wang, Bryn Llewellyn, Saar Maoz, Chao Liang, Gopal Mulagund, Pushkar Punit, Sivaselvam Narayanasamy, Ankur Kemkar, Sue Lee, Rich Long, Ricardo Alonso Gonzalez Acuna, Barb Lundhild, Sangeeth Jose, Rudregowda Mallegowda, Prasad Kuruvadi Nagaraj, Mughees Minhas, Krishna Mohan, Matthew McKerley, John McHugh, Gurudas Pai, Satish Panchumarthy , Rajesh Prasad, Rajendra Pingte, Ramesh Chakravarthula, Srinivas Poovala, David Price, Hanlin Qian, Michael Coulter, Hema Ramamurthy, Sunil Ravindrachar, Mark Richwine, Dipak Saggi, Alan Tam, Ian Cookson, David Schreiner, Ara Shakian, Naveen Ramamurthy, Mohit Singhal, Dharma Sirnapalli, Akshay Shah, James Spiller, Roy Swonger, Binoy Sukumaran, Jagvir Yadav, Ravi Thammaiah, Shekhar Vaggu, Pablo Sainz Albanez, Hector Vieyra, Peter Wahl, John Haxby, Sergiusz Wolicki, Sivakumar Yarlagadda, Nagendra Kumar Ym This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. 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Contents Preface Audience xiii Documentation Accessibility xiii Diversity and Inclusion xiii Set Up Java Access Bridge to Implement Java Accessibility xiv Command Syntax xiv Conventions xv Changes in this Release for Oracle Database New Features xvi Deprecated Features xvii Other Changes xviii 1 Oracle Database Installation Checklist Server Hardware Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-1 Operating System Checklist for Oracle Database Installation on Linux 1-2 Server Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-3 Oracle User Environment Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-5 Storage Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-7 Installer Planning Checklist for Oracle Database 1-8 Deployment Checklist for Oracle Database 1-11 2 Checking and Configuring Server Hardware for Oracle Database Logging In to a Remote System Using X Window System 2-1 Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration 2-2 3 Automatically Configuring Oracle Linux with Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM About the Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM 3-1 iv Overview of Oracle Linux Configuration with Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM 3-2 Installing the Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM Using ULN 3-3 Installing Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM During an Oracle Linux Installation 3-5 Installing Oracle Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM Using the Oracle Linux yum Server 3-6 Configure Additional Operating System Features 3-7 4 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle Database on Linux Guidelines for Linux Operating System Installation 4-2 Completing a Minimal or Default Linux Installation 4-2 About Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 4-3 About the Oracle Database Preinstallation RPM 4-3 Restrictions for HugePages and Transparent HugePages Configurations 4-4 Reviewing Operating System and Software Upgrade Best Practices 4-5 General Upgrade Best Practices 4-5 New Server Operating System Upgrade Option 4-6 Oracle ASM Upgrade Notifications 4-7 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices 4-7 About Installation Fixup Scripts 4-7 About Operating System Requirements 4-8 Using Oracle RPM Checker on IBM: Linux on System z 4-9 Operating System Requirements for x86-64 Linux Platforms 4-9 General Guidelines for Operating System Packages 4-10 Supported Oracle Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64 4-11 Supported Oracle Linux 7 Distributions for x86-64 4-13 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64 4-15 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for x86-64 4-17 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Distributions for x86-64 4-19 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Distributions for x86-64 4-21 Installing Operating System Packages 4-23 Operating System Requirements for IBM: Linux on System z 4-24 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z 4-24 Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z 4-25 Supported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z 4-26 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for Linux 4-27 Installing PAM for Login Authentication on Linux 4-28 Installation Requirements for OCFS2 4-28 About OCFS2 and Shared Storage 4-28 Installing OCFS2 4-29 Installing Oracle Messaging Gateway 4-29 v Installation Requirements for ODBC and LDAP 4-29 About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database 4-30 Installing ODBC Drivers for Linux x86-64 4-30 About LDAP and Oracle Plug-ins 4-30 Installing the LDAP Package 4-30 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux 4-30 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Linux x86-64 4-31 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for IBM: Linux on System z 4-31 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers