Oracle® Database Database Client Installation Guide 18c for Oracle Solaris E83746-05 July 2019 Oracle Database Database Client Installation Guide, 18c for Oracle Solaris E83746-05 Copyright © 2015, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Primary Author: Prakash Jashnani Contributing Authors: Douglas Williams Contributors: Mark Bauer, David Austin, Neha Avasthy, Prasad Bagal, Subhranshu Banerjee, Subhash Chan‐ dra, Tammy Bednar, Santosh Loke, Eric Belden, Gavin Bowe, Robert Chang, Darcy Christensen, Kiran Cha‐ mala, Jonathan Creighton, Benoit Dageville, Sudip Datta, Jim Erickson, Marcus Fallen, Joseph Francis, Mark Fuller, Allan Graves, Barbara Glover, Asad Hasan, Thirumaleshwara Hasandka, Sekhar Lakkapragada, Clara Jaeckel, Aneesh Khandelwal, Joel Kallman, Eugene Karichkin, Jai Krishnani, Sangeeth Kumar, Ranjith Kun‐ dapur, Kevin Jernigan, Sampath Ravindhran, Christopher Jones, Simon Law, Bryn Llewellyn, Saar Maoz, Sreejith Minnanghat, Gopal Mulagund, Sue Lee, Rich Long, Barb Lundhild, Subrahmanyam Kodavaluru, Ru‐ dregowda Mallegowda, Padmanabhan Manavazhi, Mughees Minhas, Krishna Mohan, Matthew McKerley, John McHugh, Gurudas Pai, Satish Panchumarthy , Rajesh Prasad, Rajendra Pingte, Apparsamy Perumal, Srinivas Poovala, Mohammed Shahnawaz Quadri, Hanlin Qian, Parvathi Subramanian, Hema Ramamurthy, Sunil Ravindrachar, Mark Richwine, Dipak Saggi, Trivikrama Samudrala, Shachi Sanklecha, David Schreiner, Ara Shakian, Mohit Singhal, Dharma Sirnapalli, Akshay Shah, James Spiller, Roy Swonger, Binoy Sukumar‐ an, Kamal Tbeileh, Ravi Thammaiah, Shekhar Vaggu, Preethi Vallam, Ajesh Viswambharan, Peter Wahl, Terri Winters, Sergiusz Wolicki, Sivakumar Yarlagadda, Zakia Zerhouni 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 vii Set Up Java Access Bridge to Implement Java Accessibility vii Documentation Accessibility viii Command Syntax viii Related Documentation ix Conventions ix 1 Oracle Database Client Installation Checklist Server Hardware Checklist for Oracle Database Client Installation 1-1 Operating System Checklist for Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris 1-2 Server Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Client 1-3 Oracle User Environment Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-4 Storage Checklist for Oracle Database Client 1-5 Installer Planning Checklist for Oracle Database Client 1-6 2 Checking and Configuring Server Hardware for Oracle Database Client Logging In to a Remote System Using X Window System 2-1 Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration 2-2 3 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle Database Client on Ora‐ cle Solaris Guidelines for Oracle Solaris Operating System Installation 3-1 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices 3-1 About Operating System Requirements 3-2 Operating System Requirements for Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-Bit) 3-2 Supported Oracle Solaris 11 Releases for SPARC (64-Bit) 3-3 Supported Oracle Solaris 10 Releases for SPARC (64-Bit) 3-3 Operating System Requirements for Oracle Solaris on x86–64 (64-Bit) 3-4 iii Supported Oracle Solaris 11 Releases for x86-64 (64-Bit) 3-5 Supported Oracle Solaris 10 Releases for x86-64 (64-Bit) 3-6 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for Oracle Solaris 3-6 Installing Oracle Messaging Gateway 3-7 Installation Requirements for ODBC and LDAP 3-7 About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database 3-8 Installing ODBC Drivers for Oracle Solaris 3-8 About LDAP and Oracle Plug-ins 3-8 Installing the LDAP Package 3-8 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments 3-8 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Oracle Solaris 3-8 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers 3-10 Checking the Software Requirements for Oracle Solaris 3-10 Verifying Operating System Version on Oracle Solaris 3-10 Verifying Operating System Packages on Oracle Solaris 3-11 Verifying Operating System Patches on Oracle Solaris 10 3-12 4 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Database Client Required Operating System Groups and Users 4-1 Determining If an Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exist 4-2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist 4-2 About Oracle Installation Owner Accounts 4-3 Identifying an Oracle Software Owner User Account 4-3 Creating Operating System Oracle Installation User Accounts 4-4 Creating an Oracle Software Owner User 4-4 Environment Requirements for Oracle Software Owners 4-4 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments 4-5 Setting Remote Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration 4-7 Unsetting Oracle Installation Owner Environment Variables 4-8 5 Installing Oracle Database Client Accessing the Installation Software 5-1 Downloading Oracle Software 5-2 Downloading the Installation Archive Files from OTN 5-2 Downloading the Software from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud Portal 5-2 Copying the Software to the Hard Disk 5-3 Mounting Disks on Oracle Solaris Systems 5-3 About Character Set Selection During Installation 5-4 iv Running the Installer in a Different Language 5-5 Installing the Oracle Database Client Software 5-5 Running Setup Wizard to Install Oracle Database Client 5-6 Using Oracle Net Configuration Assistant 5-7 Relinking Oracle Database Client Binaries After Installation 5-7 6 Oracle Database Client Postinstallation Tasks Required Postinstallation Tasks 6-1 Downloading and Installing Release Update Patches 6-1 Recommended Postinstallation Tasks 6-2 Creating a Backup of the root.sh Script 6-2 Setting Language and Locale Preferences for Client Connections 6-2 7 Removing Oracle Database Software About Oracle Deinstallation Options 7-1 Oracle Deinstallation (Deinstall) 7-3 Deinstallation Examples for Oracle Database Client 7-4 A Installing and Configuring Oracle Database Using Response Files How Response Files Work A-1 Reasons for Using Silent Mode or Response File Mode A-2 Using Response Files A-2 Preparing Response Files A-3 Editing a Response File Template A-3 Recording Response Files A-4 Running Oracle Universal Installer Using a Response File A-5 Index v List of Tables 1-1 Server Hardware Checklist for Oracle Database Client Installations 1-1 1-2 Operating System General Checklist for Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris 1-2 1-3 Server Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database