Installing Oracle 11g R2 in Ubuntu 10.04

Question

Initial Problem

I was installing Oracle 11g Release 2 Enterprise edition in Ubuntu 10.04 ( running on VMWARE ). Need help regarding that.

Problem #1:

I was following

• https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1115155
• http://www.pythian.com/news/13291/installing-oracle-11gr2-enterprise-edition-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/

Both are recommending to install

• libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb
• ia32-libs_2.7ubuntu6.1_amd64.deb

But I'm getting a 404 to when applying wget

Problem 2:

I skipped this part to see the end and finally I'm stuck on running below commands

$ cd database
$ ./runInstaller

Its throwing error like

/opt/database/runInstaller: 153: /opt/database/install/.oui: Permission denied

Problem Phase 2

Thnx Sathya
Finally I could get rid of Initial Problem. It was silly permission problem. But now stuck in another. When im running

./runInstaller

first it is showing following failure

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB.   Actual 10055 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 894 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors
>>> Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set.    Failed <<<<

If I ignore this check and press y to continue, it shows

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
    at java.awt.Toolkit$2.run(Toolkit.java:821)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:804)
    at com.jgoodies.looks.LookUtils.isLowResolution(Unknown Source)
    at com.jgoodies.looks.LookUtils.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at com.jgoodies.looks.plastic.PlasticLookAndFeel.<clinit>(PlasticLookAndFeel.java:122)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:242)
    at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.loadSystemClass(SwingUtilities.java:1783)
    at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:480)
    at oracle.install.commons.util.Application.startup(Application.java:758)
    at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:164)
    at oracle.install.commons.flow.FlowApplication.startup(FlowApplication.java:181)
    at oracle.install.commons.base.driver.common.Installer.startup(Installer.java:265)
    at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.startup(DBInstaller.java:114)
    at oracle.install.ivw.db.driver.DBInstaller.main(DBInstaller.java:132)

As my ubuntu is running on VMWARE, may be its not getting the display properties properly. Also as a clarification I m doing

DISPLAY=oracle:0.0 ; export DISPLAY

here oracle is the output of

whoami

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

Finally I got it fixed.
using

xhost +

Now I can see that this was recommended in different forums. However, lets include the steps here also :)

1. log into console as root and open a terminal window within CDE
2. DISPLAY=:0.0
3. export DISPLAY
4. xhost +
5. su - oracle
6. DISPLAY=:0.0
7. export DISPLAY
8. /user/openwin/bin/xclock - Launched xclock this way to ensure it was working, and it was
9. Changed back to the directory where the runInstaller was and launched.

Collected from https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=569326

Answer 2

FYI for others looking at this and still stuck - I still had the issue:

Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set.FailedCould not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set. Failed

Even after getting xclock to load (on RHEL) for the oracle user. In the end, my issue was '/usr/bin/xdpyinfo' wasn't installed, I was missing xorg-x11-utils.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg02702.html

Answer 3

If you are running database server in command-line mode(runlevel 3),and your client is windows, you should run an X server on your client machine like Xming server

also if you use Putty to connect to the server,X11 forwarding should be enabled without any location address changing. No DISPLAY environment needed. Putty automatically forwards all x commands from the server to your client machine running Xming server. Hope this helps.