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Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid IbexPosted by Augusto Bott on Nov 18, 2008

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Hello, there! With another Ubuntu release, it has come the time to update our series of posts on how to install Oracle 11g on Ubuntu. If youve been following, weve been publishing updated howtos since Ubuntu 7.04: Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn In fact, in this article I refer several times to previous posts regarding some configuration aspects and why I chose particular values. Also, note that this series of posts is a work in progress and we were able to improve this series with your help. So please do post comment below as your collaboration is very much appreciated. In this post, well see the steps needed to install Oracle 11gR1 on an Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex box all the way to creating your very first database. Ive been working very hard to ensure that at every new post, the results you get when executing this procedure are as deterministic as possible, leading to a successful setup.Jaroslava

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Please keep in mind that this is not a supported architecture, so pay special attention to the order in which I do things. Dont rush and try to merge steps, as it took me a lot of attempts to make this setup work properly. There are some reboots and also theres a specific order you need to do things, so please follow the instructions stepbystep and verify the the results of every single command.

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PreparationLets get down to it, shall we? The first thing to do is to get some files. We need an ISO image of Ubuntu (a CD/DVD will do) and one of Oracle 11gR1. Get Ubuntu 8.10 Server here; and Oracle 11gR1 here. (Its free, but you have to register on the Oracle website to download it.) Its a good idea to check the md5sum of each image after downloading from the Internet. For the Ubuntu ISO, see http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.10/MD5SUMS Here is the md5sum I calculated on the Oracle package:a2ec9975a91e1228c8292ed9799dc302 ubuntu-8.10-server-i386.iso

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Im using VMWare Server for this article, since its very handy when you have to repeat the whole procedure several times until you get the proper sequence; also because it is free as in free beer (but not as in free speechsee http://vmware.com /products/server/). If you prefer, you can use a physical machine, Xen (http://www.xen.org/) or VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) but Im not covering those here. Ive installed a plainvanilla x86 Ubuntu instance with 512 MB of RAM, but instead of creating a disk with the suggested defaults, Ive created one single virtual disk with 16 GB instead, so I can be sure not to run out of disk space. During the installation, you should choose guided partitioning and no encrypted home directory, unless you know what youre doing. Also, as were going to do everything remotely in this HOWTO, you will want to request the installation of a OpenSSH server in the last steps of the installation. On the first boot, lets check if we have everything we need, such as connectivity and sudo acccess.

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If you dont have access to the box, review your installation, network addresses, etc. Lets continue by updating every single package on the box:bott@desktop:~/Desktop$ ssh [email protected] [email protected]'s password: (...) pythian@ibex:~$ sudo su root@ibex:~# apt-get update Hit http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security Release.gpg Ign http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Translation-en_US (...) Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Packages [14B] Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/multiverse Sources [14B] Fetched 6551B in 0s (7776B/s) Reading package lists... Done root@ibex:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

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Need to get 24.7MB of archives. After this operation, 24.6kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (...) Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-server Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done (...) Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place root@ibex:~#

Since we had a kernel upgrade, reboot before continuing:root@ibex:~#reboot (...) The system is going down for reboot NOW! root@ibex:~# Connection to 192.168.x.y closed by remote host. Connection to 192.168.x.y closed. bott@desktop:~/Desktop$

After rebooting to change the kernel, lets install all the required packages to continue:bott@desktop:~/Desktop$ ssh [email protected] [email protected]'s password: (...) pythian@ibex:~$ sudo su [sudo] password for pythian: root@ibex:~# apt-get install gcc make binutils gawk x11-utils rpm alien ksh lsb-rpm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: (... long list ...) Suggested packages: (... another long list ...) The following NEW packages will be installed: (... even longer list ...) 0 upgraded, 54 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.3MB of archives. After this operation, 93.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main gawk 1:3.1.6.dfsg-0ubuntu1 [500kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libdrm2 2.3.1-0build1 [260kB] (...) Setting up build-essential (11.4) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place root@ibex:~#

Now we have all the packages we need, so lets make sure we have all the requirements to run the Oracle Universal Installer as it was not designed to run on Ubuntu, but rather on Redhatlike systems). First, make sure Bash is your default replacement for sh:root@ibex:~# cd /bin root@ibex:/bin# ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-11-02 21:33 /bin/sh -> dash root@ibex:/bin# ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh root@ibex:/bin# ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-11-02 22:34 /bin/sh -> bash root@ibex:/bin#

Lets create some users:root@ibex:/bin# cd root@ibex:~# pwd /root root@ibex:~# addgroup oinstall Adding group `oinstall' (GID 1001) ... Done. root@ibex:~# addgroup dba Adding group `dba' (GID 1002) ... Done. root@ibex:~# addgroup nobody Adding group `nobody' (GID 1003) ... Done. root@ibex:~# usermod -g nobody nobody root@ibex:~# useradd -g oinstall -G dba -p password -d /home/oracle -s /bin/bash oracle root@ibex:~# mkdir /home/oracle root@ibex:~# chown -R oracle:dba /home/oracle root@ibex:~# ln -s /usr/bin/awk /bin/awk root@ibex:~# ln -s /usr/bin/rpm /bin/rpm root@ibex:~# ln -s /usr/bin/basename /bin/basename root@ibex:~# mkdir /etc/rc.d root@ibex:~# for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 S ; do ln -s /etc/rc$i.d /etc/rc.d/rc$i.d ; done root@ibex:~# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle root@ibex:~# chown -R oracle:dba /u01 root@ibex:~#

Copy the unpacked Oracle 11gR1 to the box were working on:bott@desktop:~/Desktop$ scp -r database [email protected]: [email protected]'s password: (...)

And put our installation files in place:pythian@ibex:~$ sudo su root@ibex:~# mv /home/pythian/database /media/database root@ibex:~# chown -R oracle:oinstall /media/database root@ibex:~#

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Lets change some systemwide configuration files, starting with /etc/sysctl.conf:root@ibex:~# cd /etc root@ibex:/etc# cp sysctl.conf sysctl.conf.original

Edit it, adding the following lines to the bottom of the file:fs.file-max = 65535 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535 net.core.rmem_default = 4194304 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 262144

Then, lets modify /etc/security/limits.conf:root@ibex:/etc# cd /etc/security/ root@ibex:/etc/security# cp limits.conf limits.conf.original

Add the following lines to the bottom of the file:oracle oracle oracle oracle soft hard soft hard nproc 2047 nproc 16383 nofile 1023 nofile 65535

The last one, for now, is /etc/pam.d/login:root@ibex:/etc/security# cd /etc/pam.d root@ibex:/etc/pam.d# cp login login.original

Edit login, adding to it:session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so session required pam_limits.so

Im not completely convinced that a reboot is needed here (you probably could get away with sysctl -p as root and logging in again as your user) but I do recommend it, just to make sure we are on the same page. Doing so guarantees that weve cleaned up our memory and loaded at boot time all the changes we just did.

Oracle installationOnce our VM is back online. its time to become user oracle and to fire up the Oracle Universal Installer. Dont forget to allow incoming connections on your X server with xhost +192.168.x.y. The IP address 192.168.w.z is the IP address of your X server.pythian@ibex:~$ whoami pythian pythian@ibex:~$ sudo su [sudo] password for pythian: root@ibex:~# su - oracle oracle@ibex:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.w.z:0.0 oracle@ibex:~$ cd /media/database oracle@ibex:/media/database$ ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs Starting Oracle Universal Installer... Checking Temp space: must be greater than 80 MB. Actual 12037 MB Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 729 MB Passed Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2008-11-04_12-02-58AM. Please wait ...oracle@ibex:/media/database$ Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.1.0.6.0 Production Copyright (C) 1999, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

The installer may throw errors at some point:Locking assertion failure. Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0xa35067c7] #1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0xa3506891] #2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0x254) [0xa354e494] (...)

I ignored it and moved on with the installation. You should be able to finish your installation just as I did. The following screen will be presented:

Ive selected group dba:

And asked the installer to proceed with the whole Enterprise Edition:

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Note that we changed the name and location of our ORACLE_HOME to oraibex and /u01/app/oracle/product /11.1.0/oraibex:

Some of the productspecific prerequisite checks will fail, but we check each checkbox so the last column reads User Verified on all unchecked rows:

We will install software only now, nothing else:

And change the privileged OS groups to dba:

It will show us a summary, but the Next is greyed out, so we hit Install

And it will begin installing:

And we get a cup of tea:

And another cup of tea:

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Until it asks us to execute a couple of scripts as root:

In case youve never done this before and want to know what it looks like, heres the output I got:bott@desktop:~$ ssh [email protected] [email protected]'s password: (...) pythian@ibex:~$ sudo su [sudo] password for pythian: root@ibex:~# /u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh Changing permissions of /u01/app/oraInventory to 770. Changing groupname of /u01/app/oraInventory to dba. The execution of the script is complete root@ibex:~# /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex/root.sh Running Oracle 11g root.sh script... The following environment variables are set as: ORACLE_OWNER= oracle ORACLE_HOME= /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]: Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ... Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ... Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ... Creating /etc/oratab file... Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created Finished running generic part of root.sh script. Now product-specific root actions will be performed. Finished product-specific root actions. root@ibex:~#

At the end of the installation, the Oracle Universal Installer is kind enough to ask us for confirmation before leaving (you can click on Installed Products and review what was installed before leaving the installer:

Now, take note of two things, our ORACLE_BASE and our ORACLE_HOME as well use them later:ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex

We now have only the database software, but no database created yet. Lets get moving and install the few extra packages needed to complete our installation. Please note that on several attempts, Ive installed all the packages in the earlier step, but all those attempts failed; thats why were installing it just before we actually need it (dbca will fail without those and the database wont be created):root@ibex:~# apt-get install libaio1 lesstif2 libmotif3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libxp6 The following NEW packages will be installed: lesstif2 libaio1 libmotif3 libxp6 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1941kB of archives. After this operation, 4772kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-2 [16.7kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse libmotif3 2.2.3-2 [1283kB] (...) Setting up libaio1 (0.3.107-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place root@ibex:~#

Create our startup/init script:root@ibex:~# cat /etc/init.d/oracledb #!/bin/bash # # /etc/init.d/oracledb

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# # Run-level Startup script for the Oracle Listener and Instances # It relies on the information on /etc/oratab export export export export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex ORACLE_OWNR=oracle PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

if [ ! -f $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart -o ! -d $ORACLE_HOME ] then echo "Oracle startup: cannot start" exit 1 fi case "$1" in start) # Oracle listener and instance startup echo -n "Starting Oracle: " su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl start" su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart $ORACLE_HOME" touch /var/lock/oracle echo "OK" ;; stop) # Oracle listener and instance shutdown echo -n "Shutdown Oracle: " su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl stop" su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut $ORACLE_HOME" rm -f /var/lock/oracle echo "OK" ;; reload|restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: `basename $0` start|stop|restart|reload" exit 1 esac exit 0

We will make it executable and tell the OS we want it started at boot time:root@ibex:~# chmod a+x /etc/init.d/oracledb root@ibex:~# update-rc.d oracledb defaults 99 update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/oracledb missing LSB style header Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/oracledb ... /etc/rc0.d/K99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb /etc/rc1.d/K99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb /etc/rc6.d/K99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb /etc/rc2.d/S99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb /etc/rc3.d/S99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb /etc/rc4.d/S99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb /etc/rc5.d/S99oracledb -> ../init.d/oracledb root@ibex:~#

Note: Do NOT reboot now.

Creating a databaseLets install our first database with DBCA (DataBase Configuration Assistant).root@ibex:~# su - oracle oracle@ibex:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.w.z:0.0 oracle@ibex:~$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex oracle@ibex:~$ export PATH=$PATH:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex/bin oracle@ibex:~$ dbca (...some time will pass before you see anything -- be patient...) Locking assertion failure. Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x9fc957c7] #1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+0x31) [0x9fc95891] (...)

Now, wait for a few moments, as dbca can take up to a couple of minutes to show this initial screen:

Thats right, we want to create a database:

A general Purpose or TransactionProcessing database, next:

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And our SID will be intrepid:

But we dont want to configure Enterprise Manager just now:

We want to use the same password for both SYS and SYSTEM accounts:

Nothing fancy, just plain filesystem for storage:

Lets use the suggested template:

But no recovery area or archiving:

We dont want the sample schemas or to execute any custom scripts at this time:

You can tune this if you want, but Id suggest leaving it asis unless you know what youre doing:

As well as sticking with the suggestion of keeping the enhanced default security settings:

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I dont want any automatic unattended tasks running:

Check your filesystem layout, then hit Next:

Yes, we want it to go ahead and create the database. Hit Finish this time.

It will show what its about to do. Check it out, then hit OK when ready.

And it will get to work, creating your first database:

Go get another cup of tea:

And another:

And keep watching the screen until you see something like this:

At this point, youll have an empty database created.

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TestingTime to check it out. First test: we shut it down and restart it.oracle@ibex:~$ export ORACLE_SID=intrepid oracle@ibex:~$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [intrepid] ? The Oracle base for ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex is /u01/app/oracle oracle@ibex:~$ sqlplus '/as sysdba' SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu Nov 6 14:35:24 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> shutdown immediate; Database closed. Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> startup nomount; ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 238530560 Fixed Size 1299116 Variable Size 125832532 Database Buffers 109051904 Redo Buffers 2347008 SQL> alter database mount; Database altered. SQL> alter database open; Database altered. SQL> shutdown immediate; Database closed. Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down. SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options oracle@ibex:~$ bytes bytes bytes bytes bytes

Next, we make it start on boot:root@ibex:~# cat /etc/oratab # # This file is used by ORACLE utilities. It is created by root.sh # and updated by the Database Configuration Assistant when creating # a database. # A colon, ':', is used as the field terminator. A new line terminates # the entry. Lines beginning with a pound sign, '#', are comments. # # Entries are of the form: # $ORACLE_SID:$ORACLE_HOME:: # # The first and second fields are the system identifier and home # directory of the database respectively. The third filed indicates # to the dbstart utility that the database should , "Y", or should not, # "N", be brought up at system boot time. # # Multiple entries with the same $ORACLE_SID are not allowed. # # intrepid:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex:N root@ibex:~#

See that N on the line starting with intrepid? Change it to Y:intrepid:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex:Y

Heres what happens when you run /etc/init.d/oracledb:root@ibex:~# /etc/init.d/oracledb start Starting Oracle: LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 12-NOV-2008 15:39:25 Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Starting /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex/bin/tnslsnr: please wait... TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production Log messages written to /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/ibex/listener/alert/log.xml Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=ibex.baia)(PORT=1521))) Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521)) STATUS of the LISTENER -----------------------Alias LISTENER Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production Start Date 12-NOV-2008 15:39:28 Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 0 min. 3 sec Trace Level off Security ON: Local OS Authentication SNMP OFF Listener Log File /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/ibex/listener/alert/log.xml Listening Endpoints Summary... (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=ibex.baia)(PORT=1521))) The listener supports no services The command completed successfully Processing Database instance "intrepid": log file /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex/startup.log

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OK root@ibex:~#

So after every reboot, you'll be able to login to your database:root@ibex:~# su - oracle oracle@ibex:~$ export ORACLE_SID=intrepid oracle@ibex:~$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [intrepid] ? The Oracle base for ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex is /u01/app/oracle oracle@ibex:~$ sqlplus '/as sysdba' SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Wed Nov 12 15:41:38 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select sysdate from dual; SYSDATE --------12-NOV-08 SQL>

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darky says: November 19, 2008 at 5:53 am hi! at creating table: after dbca comm: No protocol specified Reply

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Augusto Bott says: November 19, 2008 at 8:42 am @darky, Heres a sample output on the VM I built (and rebuilt several times while writing this article): oracle@ibex:~$ export ORACLE_SID=intrepid oracle@ibex:~$ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [intrepid] ? The Oracle base for ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex is /u01/app/oracle oracle@ibex:~$ sqlplus /as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 Production on Wed Nov 19 08:34:14 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> create table sys.dont_do_this_on_sys (a number); Table created. SQL> insert into sys.dont_do_this_on_sys (a) values (1); 1 row created. SQL> insert into sys.dont_do_this_on_sys (a) values (2); 1 row created. SQL> commit; Commit complete.

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SQL> select * from sys.dont_do_this_on_sys; A 1 2 SQL> drop table sys.dont_do_this_on_sys; Table dropped. SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options oracle@ibex:~$ Please doublecheck your installation steps as you probably missed something hard to tell exactly what Cheers! Reply

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Jay says: November 20, 2008 at 10:20 am Thanks for the great document Bott!!. I managed to get Oracle 11 up and running on my laptop. There were few hiccups during the process. 1) I had to use export DISPLAY=:0.0 instead of export DISPLAY=:0.0 as I did the installation on my laptop. 2) I got a blank pop up window as the final confirmation of the database creation and had to disable compiz (metacity replace) in order to get it visible. Apart from that Ive noticed the following error messages on the shell during the installation, which seems to be harmless for the time being rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian. error: cannot open Packages index using db3 No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian. error: cannot open Packages index using db3 No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Thanks again for the great document. It helped a lot. Cheers, Jay Reply

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ashok says: November 21, 2008 at 2:21 am Bravo!!! Excellent!!! Marvelous!!! Wow! I cant believe that installing Oracle could be this easy. Ive been trying to do this for a long time. Just last week I saw your post but it was only for Hardy. So, I installed Oracle 10XE. When I visited your site again, saw the link to this post. I immediately uninstalled XE and tried 11g and IT WORKED!!! Ive no words to thankyou for your effort. Showing output for every single command, showing every screenshots on the way. Noone could have done better than this. Thankyou so much for this great guide. Would you mind if I print a copy of this page? Few suggestions: There is a small typo above. Instead of: SQL> Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options It should be SQL> exit Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options Also, where you said Note: Do not restart. I had to restart my system as dbca stuck there forever. After a restart it took only 2 mins to start. I would like to see this tutorial also for a standalone PC/Laptop. People like me like to test Oracle in their own machine instead of a server.I think it is not that difficult to install in a standalone PC/Laptop after reading this, but it will help those who are already familiar with Oracle but are new to Linux. Thank you so much again. PS: This could be my first ever comment online where Ive given honest feedback and where Ive provided my real name and emailID just to honor your great effort ;) Reply

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iteachguru says: November 24, 2008 at 11:32 am Ashok, I definitely do the same testing on my laptop. I am trying to figure out how to get zenoss working with Oracle vice MySQL. What I do when testing anything on my laptop is use a VM (VMware or Virtualbox) that way you can scrap it and do it again and actual ssh into the VM (like you normally would for a server anyway.

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Augusto Bott says: November 25, 2008 at 12:37 pm @ashok, @iteachguru, If you want to run that on a local machine, you probably can skip all the ssh parts but keep the export DISPLAY as this tutorial was designed with empty/default environment variables in mind. Also, thanks for noticing that missing exit but theres no typo in there: instead of typing exit to quit sqlplus, I typed control + D. This leads to the same result: it quits since it received an EOF char. Cheers! Reply

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Rafi says: November 27, 2008 at 10:41 pm Hi bott, I follow your tutorial and then i have trouble at this point: oracle@ibex:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.w.z:0.0 oracle@ibex:~$ cd /media/database oracle@ibex:/media/database$ ./runInstaller ignoreSysPrereqs Starting Oracle Universal Installer didnt seem to work for me. I used the following link to solve the unable to open display issue http://rossov.com/2006/02/10/xhostunabletoopendisplay/ rafi@ubuntu:~$ xauth extract /tmp/xauth.key $DISPLAY && chmod 644 /tmp/xauth.key rafi@ubuntu:~$ su oracle Password: oracle@ubuntu:~$ xauth merge /tmp/xauth.key xauth: creating new authority file /home/oracle/.Xauthority oracle@ubuntu:~$ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host oracle@ubuntu:~$ ./runInstaller ignoreSysPrereqs Starting Oracle Universal Installer Thank you so much for the great tutorial. Reply

Susan Salkeld says: March 20, 2010 at 3:27 pm Thanks Rafi! I was having trouble with the display as well. I used your instructions with one extra step due to an error. Also, I used these instructions on Ubuntu 9.10. Thank you to everyone involved on the page it is VERY useful. ongroup@lorax:~$ xauth extract /tmp/xauth.key $DISPLAY && chmod 644 /tmp/xauth.key ongroup@lorax:~$ sudo su oracle [sudo] password for ongroup: oracle@lorax:~$ xauth merge /tmp/xauth.key oracle@lorax:~$ xhost + xhost: unable to open display (this is the error I received) oracle@lorax:~$ export DISPLAY=:0.0 oracle@lorax:~$ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host oracle@lorax:~$ cd /media/database/ oracle@lorax:/media/database$ ./runInstaller ignoreSysPrereqs Starting Oracle Universal Installer Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 257333 MB Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 11515 MB Passed Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall20100320_011532PM. Please wait oracle@lorax:/media/database$ Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.1.0.6.0 Production Copyright (C) 1999, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Reply

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Augusto Bott says: November 28, 2008 at 9:11 am @Rafi, Please notice you need to explicitly allow connections to be accepted on the machine running the X server. This usually means your workstation. You might need to check Menu System > Administration > Login Window (check the Security tab), but this is usually achieved just by executing xhost +ip_address. The export DISPLAY command shall be issued on the machine youre about to run the Oracle installer so when starting, it knows where to show the interface.

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Cheers! Reply 9. Log Buffer #125: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs says: November 28, 2008 at 12:46 pm [...] The ORACLEBASE Blog has a dynamic duo of articlesone each on installing Oracle 11.1 and installing Fedora 10. (Im a little late mentioning it, but this item is a fine complement to Augusto Botts latest article: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex). [...] Reply

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Tam says: November 29, 2008 at 2:51 am Thanks so much. I made it at last! Im using X (gnomecore and gdm) on the same machine, so I did this, a bit different to your guide: 1. Test if Xserver is active, the result is that it is not: oracle@sgnlinapp04:~$ xclock Error: Cant open display: 2. Log in to Gnome desktop with an administrator account, go to System >> Administration >> Login window >> Security and untick the box next to Deny TCP connection to X server 3. Log out of Desktop, log in again with user oracle. Open terminal window and run these commands (I do not remember where I copied these from) oracle@sgnlinapp04:~$ xclock Error: Cant open display: oracle@sgnlinapp04:~$ export DISPLAY=:0 oracle@sgnlinapp04:~$ xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list oracle@sgnlinapp04:~$ xclock By this time we can see a clock on our desktop. ^C to exit to terminal. After this I was able to start Oracle Universal Installer exactly like guided above!! Thanks again. Cam on! Reply

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Christian Sage says: November 29, 2008 at 4:44 pm Very good guide indeed! Works precisely as described without any hitch. Even for an old hand at installing Oracle (like me) that makes it very helpful. I certainly would have had a few bumps in my install experience otherwise. Please keep up the good work, it is much appreciated! Reply

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DJEhresmann says: November 30, 2008 at 12:51 pm I have a windows home vista edition that I have installed a VMWare Server and installed Ubuntu Desktop edition into it. Can I install 11gRel1 into this Desktop edition? I saw one of your posts where you stated that you could. How hard is it to uninstall the desktop and install the server? thanks. Reply

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StefanoI says: December 1, 2008 at 10:44 am You can install it on the desktop edition without problems. Ive an Ubuntu Desktop 8.10 box and Ive got Oracle 11g running following the instructions of this wonderful howto :) Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 1, 2008 at 11:13 am @DJEhresmann, Installation on the Ubuntu Desktop edition should be not different at all so I dont think you need to reinstall Ubuntu Server edition on your VM. Check Tams comments above (Nov 29th) and that shall help you. Cheers! Reply

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Marco de Klerk says: December 2, 2008 at 11:10 am

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Your Installer Manual Worked Like a Charm, EXCELEEENTEE I Used the Ubuntu Client version instead of Server, did not do anything different, so yes the client version also works perfectly. one note, did not use the 64 bits version but the 32 bits version available at OTN, but followed the same manual. Works like a charm Reply

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Muhannad Alsaqri says: December 4, 2008 at 9:17 am I cant thank you enough for this wonderful tutorial and great effort. I installed Oracle 11gR1 32bit over Ubuntu 8.1 Desktop version on a partition and dual boot with vista which worked perfectly! I had a few issues with the Display but I was able to work around by following some of the feedback above. I noticed that the oracle user was locked, once unlocked everything with the Display worked just fine. I skipped every instruction that had to do with (ssh section) as suggested above Bott since it was a local machine install. One last note, I did not have a dedicated partition for swap file, I defined a swap file instead using the dd command, with the 2.6 Linux kernel, swap files are just as fast as swap partitions. Again thanks for the time and efforts for making such a detail instructions to install the products. Reply

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Chad Nale says: December 5, 2008 at 2:47 pm Last installed oracle 8.1.6.0 (8iR2 on HPUX); almost 10 years ago. Followed the directions and worked without a hitch. Did use microsofts hyperv server instead of vmware. Looking forward to oracling around with the db. Thanks for the guide and all the hard work! Reply

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Sachin says: December 8, 2008 at 5:43 am Hi, Thanks for guidelins, I recently migrated to ubuntu 8.10 from windows XP. I am trying to setup my development environment on ubuntu. I am installing oracle 11g by following this blog, but while setting up Xserver, I am getting following error, Code: oracle@sachinlaptop:~$ export DISPLAY=:0 oracle@sachinlaptop:~$ xhost +localhost No protocol specified xhost: unable to open display :0 I tried all suggestion mentioned in above link, but it does not help. Any help/ pointers appreciated. Thanks, Sachin Ubuntu NewBie Reply

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Sachin says: December 8, 2008 at 8:27 am I solved my issue, Thanks for nice/ step by step guidelines. I used > sux oracle to switch user. Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 8, 2008 at 9:45 am @Sachin, Im glad things worked out for you! The only problem I could see with your export DISPLAY is the syntax. Id suggest trying export DISPLAY=:0.0. Please notice the extra dot and zero, mentioned on the HOWTO, but not present on your comment. Cheers!

Reply 21. Instalando Oracle 11g no Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Helder A. Morais : Blog says: December 10, 2008 at 3:02 am [...] Instalando Oracle 11g no Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex By helderam http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1355 [...] Reply

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Vincenzo says: December 14, 2008 at 5:24 am Dear Sirs, after I install Oracle software have some error and Database tell me created but is not truth. Ive another problem when I launch installer go out right window with all button and labels but if I select deinstall product go out an empty popup window. Warnings (Assertion failure) that go out when I launch runInstaller are follow: oracle@blackhawk:/media/database$ ./runInstaller ignoreSysPrereqs Starting Oracle Universal Installer Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 210485 MB Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 15257 MB Passed Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM. Please wait oracle@blackhawk:/media/database$ Oracle Universal Installer, Version 11.1.0.6.0 Production Copyright (C) 1999, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Locking assertion failure. Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcbxlib.so.0 [0x7fe3702869fc] #1 /usr/lib/libxcbxlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_unlock+024) [0x7fe370286ab4] #2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XReply+0268) [0x7fe3706d4698] #3 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so(XineramaQueryScreens+0xab) [0x7fe370bd22ab] #4 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so(xineramaInit+0x4c) [0x7fe370bbf41c] #5 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so(awt_init_Display+0xee) [0x7fe370bbf57e] #6 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64 /xawt/libmawt.so(Java_sun_awt_X11GraphicsEnvironment_initDisplay+09) [0x7fe370bbf749] #7 [0x7fe3815fef9b] Locking assertion failure. Backtrace: #0 /usr/lib/libxcbxlib.so.0 [0x7fe3702869fc] #1 /usr/lib/libxcbxlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+017) [0x7fe370286b77] #2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0x7fe3706d38c0] #3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XGetVisualInfo+0x2e) [0x7fe3706ca08e] #4 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so [0x7fe370bbe777] #5 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so [0x7fe370bbe9b1] #6 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so(awt_init_Display+0189) [0x7fe370bbf619] #7 /tmp/OraInstall20081214_111517AM/jdk/jre/lib/amd64 /xawt/libmawt.so(Java_sun_awt_X11GraphicsEnvironment_initDisplay+09) [0x7fe370bbf749] #8 [0x7fe3815fef9b] please help me!!! About redirect xhost solved problem in local server (no remote connection but only use su command to change user root to oracle and oracle to root for oracle installation): I solved problem to redirect xhost follow commands work for me: Like root user enable to export to other users: root@blackhawk> DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY; xhost +; connect like oracle user root@blackhawk> su oracle redirect display and export oracle@blackhawk> DISPLAY=:0.0 ; export DISPLAY Another mode is Like root user enable to export to other users: root@blackhawk> DISPLAY=:0; export DISPLAY; xhost +; connect like oracle user root@blackhawk> su oracle redirect display and export oracle@blackhawk> DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY Reply

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yassir says: December 15, 2008 at 12:43 pm thank you very much Mr for your HOWTO it was very helpful I want just you help please about somethings : I fellow all the steps and I had the same results but my problem now is how can I connect to the database using the web interface I used the URL given in ( /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/oraibex/install ): URL Enterprise Manager Database Control (orcl) : https://yassirlaptop:1158/em but it didnt work I used also the http://yassirlaptop:1521/em/ the same problem

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Augusto Bott says: December 16, 2008 at 1:40 pm @Vicenzo, Are you sure youre following the instructions on this HOWTO? I noticed you might not be using the proper binarios (are you using amd64?). Please doublecheck the instructions from the beginning as there is more than one version available to download from the Oracle website. Cheers! Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 16, 2008 at 1:57 pm @Yassir, Please notice that on this HOWTO we dont setup EM, so I can only try to guess what might be wrong since you didnt follow the instructions on this article stepbystep (as they were written). Believe me when I say I spent a great deal of time to write those instructions: so you guys get an increased chance of success by getting the very same results I did. That said, have you checked if the Enterprise Manager is actually running when you tried to open that http address? You can try to fire it up with $ORACLE_HOME/bin/emctl start dbconsole as the oracle user. As for OHS, Im sorry but I cant help you there as Ive never even used that. I usually stick with sqlplus and sqldeveloper. Best of luck! Reply

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Vincenzo says: December 17, 2008 at 12:49 pm Good afternoon Augusto Bott, Im sure that this versione is an AMD64 in CD I open document that specify installation in compliance linux system for oracle 11gR1. I dont know reason about strange behavior of windows pop for example to unistall packets of oracle installation or installed component. The strange thing is that when ended installation server (no oracle db) go out follow errors strange is last line where is write 32 PROC32 but documenta on in cd talk about amd 64 pla orm and downloaded from Oracle site: Oracle Database 11g CRS Release 11.1.0.6.0 Production Copyright 1996, 2007 Oracle. All rights reserved. 20081214 09:54:23.117: [ OCROSD][905623264]utgdv:2:ocr loc file cannot be opened 20081214 09:54:23.117: [ OCROSD][905623264]utopen:1: Couldnt find ocr,[ocrmirror] location in config file 20081214 09:54:23.117: [ OCRRAW][905623264]proprinit: Could not open raw device 20081214 09:54:23.117: [ default][905623264]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [33] 20081214 09:54:23.119: [ CSSCLNT][905623264]clsssinit: error(32 PROC32: Cluster Ready Services on the local node is not running Messaging error [9]) in OCR initialization Kind Regards Vincenzo Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 18, 2008 at 12:03 pm @Vincenzo, So indeed youre not using 32bit versions of the binaries mentioned on this article: please notice at the preparation stage (at the beginning of this HOWTO) we mention using 32bit binaries for both the OS and the database. Also, those error messages seem to be related to a RAC setup, right? That said, Im not sure I might be able to help as for such a setup as there might be some substantial differences from the instructions on this article (and as such, unfortunately those are not covered in this HOWTO). Still, I do wish you luck on your quest. Cheers! Reply

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Chuck says: December 20, 2008 at 1:39 am Stuck on display. Im running Hummingbird on my VISTA box talking to my ubuntu server via XWindows. Ive exported

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Sriram says: December 21, 2008 at 4:46 pm Hi, Thank you very much for this stepbystep guide. Helped me a lot. The installation went smooth except for 2 error messages: Exception String: Error in invoking target all_no_orcl of makefile /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/OraDb11g/rdbms /lib/ins_rdbms.mk. See /u01/app/oraInventory/logs/installActions20081220_065927PM.log for details. Exception String: Error in invoking target install of makefile /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/OraDb11g/ctx/lib /ins_ctx.mk. See /u01/app/oraInventory/logs/installActions20081220_065927PM.log for details. I opted to continue during the error messages and the installation completed successfully. The database is up and running successfully. I am not sure what effect the errors mentioned above will have. Any suggestions as to how I can fix them? Thanks again. Sriram. Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 22, 2008 at 11:55 am @Sriram, I suggest looking into the logs you mentioned on your comments (/u01/app/oraInventory /logs/installActions2008-12-20_06-59-27PM.log) as these might contain more specific information. Cheers! Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 22, 2008 at 11:56 am @Chuck, Please doublecheck for any firewall or antivirus software that might be intercepting TCP communications between you Ubuntu and Vista boxes. Cheers! Reply

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Chuck says: December 24, 2008 at 5:39 pm Well, I turned off my Desktop PCs firewall and I checked the UFW entries in syslog. There were some strange errors from my PCs IP address. So I used ufw and granted full access to that IP address to the server. Restarted the server, etc. and I still cant get the Java screens up. No more errors in the syslog though ;). When I do a ps I can see a java session out there running that wasnt there before, but no screens. Chuck Reply

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Chuck says: December 27, 2008 at 10:20 am I tried installing remotely from a Ubuntu laptop but had a similar experience. I finally had to install Kubuntu desktop on the server and the installation went fine from then on. Didnt really want the overhead of the GUI on the server but at least I still have the Ubuntu server backend. Reply

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Augusto Bott says: December 29, 2008 at 9:27 am @Chuck, I assume you already did a troubleshooting session and ruled out your X server as the cause of the problems, right? If you can indeed run other programs such as xclock or xterm, then the only thing I could do would be wishing good luck on your quest: please doublecheck every single step from the beginning as I executed this whole procedure step by step as described over a dozen times (and repeated a few times after I got the proper sequence of commands right).

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Raghav Tulshibagwale says: December 29, 2008 at 10:36 pm Hello Thank you for giving wonderful directions. I appreciate your detailed instructions and help to the DB world!! Regards!! Reply

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gtfMasterJohn says: January 1, 2009 at 6:54 am Thanks for this tutorial is perfectly working, i have totally access through sqlplus, but have anyone a guide for apex and/or sql developer working steps tu put them online, after these oracle installations steps?. Im not able to do so.

Reply 37. Kick ass guide for installing Oracle on Ubuntu | Quick Tweaks says: January 7, 2009 at 6:31 pm [...] switching to Ubuntu, I tried to install Oracle but no luck until I found this guide from Augusto Bott . He has really written an excellent guide on installing Oracle on different versions of Ubuntu. [...] Reply

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Rach says: January 11, 2009 at 5:46 pm Hi, It isnt a bad job, Thanks, Reply

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mb says: January 15, 2009 at 5:23 am on this my website page you can found my solution and a script to resolve some problem: http://fucinatecnica.blogspot.com/2009/01/installoraclesqldeveloperonubuntu.html ciao mb!!! Reply

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hsthst says: January 21, 2009 at 4:10 pm It works not so fine with the 64bit version of oracle. There you get the linking errors for extproc32 und ctxhx. The linking had problems with compiler flags (cannot find lagtsh). Any idea ? INFO: gcc m32 o /opt/oracle/product/db111/rdbms/lib/extproc32 L/opt/oracle/product/db111/rdbms/lib32/ L/opt/oracle/product/db111/lib32/ L/opt/oracle/product/db111/lib32/stubs/ /opt/oracle/product/db111/rdbms /lib32/hormc.o /opt/oracle/product/db111/rdbms/lib32/homts.o lagtsh lpthread lclntsh `cat /opt/oracle/product /db111/lib32/sysliblist` Wl,rpath,/opt/oracle/product/db111/lib32 lm `cat /opt/oracle/product/db111/lib32 /sysliblist` ldl lm L/opt/oracle/product/db111/lib32 INFO: / INFO: usr INFO: / INFO: bin INFO: / INFO: ld INFO: : INFO: INFO: cannot INFO: INFO: find INFO: INFO: INFO: lagtsh INFO: INFO: End output from spawned process. INFO: INFO: Exception thrown from action: make Exception Name: MakefileException Exception String: Error in invoking target all_no_orcl of makefile /opt/oracle/product/db111/rdbms /lib/ins_rdbms.mk. See /opt/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions20090121_093024PM.log for details.

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Stelios says: January 23, 2009 at 5:41 pm I have the same problem with my 64bit Ubuntu. The error message I get is : /etc/inittab does not seem to contain default runlevel information. Actually there is no inittab file at all. Any idea on how I can bypass this ? Reply

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Augusto Bott says: January 26, 2009 at 8:28 am @hsthst, Please doublecheck that you are indeed using the correct combination of OS (32/32 or 64/64) as the necessary steps with any kind of 64 bit binaries can be quite different. Also, please keep in mind you cannot install a 64 bit version of any application/service on a 32 bit OS. Cheers! Reply

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Augusto Bott says: January 26, 2009 at 8:49 am @Stelios, The behaviour youre describing is the most strange thing Ive installed Oracle on Ubuntu several times with different versions of Oracle 10 and 11, since Ubuntu 6.x never encountered such a problem. Googling around, I realized that Ubuntu indeed used to have a inittab it was replaced by upstart on recent Ubuntu releases. Reply

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Madhava says: January 26, 2009 at 11:18 pm Hi, When I issued the below command, I got the message that these are already installed root@ibex:~# aptget install libaio1 lesstif2 libmotif3 and then when I tried to invoke dbca, I dont see any message and the cursor returns to the command line. And, the dbca is not invoked. how can I fix this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks Reply

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Dan says: January 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm How long does this take? On a vm, its been ~2 hrs and still at 11%. Its been on 11% for a long time. Heres the output to terminal: #11 [0xb2785217] #12 /tmp/OraInstall20090127_101948AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb792bd8c] #13 /tmp/OraInstall20090127_101948AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb7a3ffd8] #14 /tmp/OraInstall20090127_101948AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xb792bbbf] #15 /tmp/OraInstall20090127_101948AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so(JVM_DoPrivileged+0x32d) [0xb798934d] #16 /tmp/OraInstall20090127_101948AM/jdk/jre/lib/i386 /libjava.so(Java_java_security_AccessController_doPrivileged__Ljava_security_PrivilegedAction_2+0x3d) [0xb77202cd] #17 [0xb278d4db] #18 [0xb2787a64] #19 [0xb2785217] rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian. error: cannot open Packages index using db3 No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian. error: cannot open Packages index using db3 No such file or directory (2) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm The only change I made was to ssh in as oracle for the oracle install portion. Any ideas why this is happening? Reply

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Dan says: January 27, 2009 at 2:40 pm OhI am also using xubuntu. I prefer xfce over gnome. That shouldnt make a difference right?

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Taleb DAHAN says: February 2, 2009 at 1:08 pm Hi, Thanks a lot for this post. It is useful and helpful. I use it and now Oracle Database is running on my Ubuntu. Taleb DAHAN Reply

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peter says: February 2, 2009 at 3:19 pm Great Post! Used it to install 10g R2 on Ubuntu 8.10. Need to install HTTP apache services that are on the companion cd. Using oracle with a product called razuna which needs to modify the DAD.conf that is part of the apache add on EM. Any recommendation where I can find some tutorial on how to install the companion cd? Thanks Reply

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Augusto Bott says: February 2, 2009 at 5:26 pm @Dan, Nope as long as you have the basic Xorg packages in place (and related libraries to your Oracle install), you should be fine regardless of whats your GUI choice. Cheers! Reply

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chupachups says: February 6, 2009 at 12:08 pm thanks for this guide, I managed to get oracle up and running last night on ubuntu desktop, however I found that bash started behaving in a strange manner afterwards, and on reinstallation it seems to be around the point where we run aptget install libaio1 lesstif2 libmotif3 (but might be a few steps earlier) the symptom is that, if we try to run a shell script which doesnt have the #!/bin/bash line at the begining, the session just hangs, if we issue bash ./scriptname this works Any ideas ? The problem manifests itself in real life when issuing . oraenv as this has a call to dbhome, which hangs Reply

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Augusto Bott says: February 6, 2009 at 1:51 pm @chupachups, Please doublecheck you /bin/sh symlink (from dash to bash) as a typo at that step might cause you all sort of weird problems later. Cheers! Reply

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chupachups says: February 6, 2009 at 3:44 pm hi augusto I did check that on the first install, it points to /bin/bash as expected, and the same thing on the second attempt too NB, on the 2nd attempt I checked the situation after every major change, and the system was working after the symb link change, as I said it was somewhere around the 2nd aptget install Im gonna try a 3rd attempt and see if I can confirm its the aptget or whether it is something to do with the root run scripts None of you guys have the problem ? Thats strange as my ubuntu is a completely fresh install + update Reply

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chupachups says: February 6, 2009 at 7:00 pm hey augusto, I found out that my problem isnt anything to do with oracle it seems that it is somehow related to putty (my windows terminal application), or opensshserver if I run the script on my linux server directly instead of putty under windows, the hang doesnt occur anyone seen this before ? Reply

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@mhj says: February 8, 2009 at 6:01 am Thanks for the great HOWTO. I managed to get 11g running on Intrepid IBEX just great. Couple of work arounds used: separate terminal as my user name, ran metacity replace (note TWO dashes). Separate terminal as my user name ran xterm and entered xhost +. In main terminal running install entered export DISPLAY=:0.0. All completed ok. Thanks again Reply

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sreeharsha says: February 12, 2009 at 11:41 am Dear Sirs, I believe this is a great guide in installing 11g on Ubuntu. Well, getting to the point. I am kind off Newbie to the world of Linux. I am getting the following error message while installing 11g on my PC. So, no remote stuff Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo and the installer never starts. System: AMD 64 X4 OS: UBUNTU server 8.1 64 db: 11g 64 bit oracle@powerhouse:/home/sreeharsha/software$ ls database linux.x64_11gR1_database_1013.zip oracle@powerhouse:/home/sreeharsha/software$ cd database/ oracle@powerhouse:/home/sreeharsha/software/database$ ./runInstaller ignoreSysPrereqs Starting Oracle Universal Installer Checking Temp space: must be greater than 120 MB. Actual 37664 MB Passed Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB. Actual 2138 MB Passed Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors >>> Could not execute auto check for display colors using command /usr/X11R6/bin/xdpyinfo. Check if the DISPLAY variable is set. Failed sudo aptget install xserverxorg xfonts* gnome Will take some time downloading, but helps a bit if you came from Windows/MSSQL environment like me ;) Thank you so much for the time you invested on this How To. Reply

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Stan says: April 20, 2009 at 4:43 am Hi Will this work with Kubuntu 64bit on a notebook to install Oracle 11g 64bit. Thanks Stan Reply

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Eric says: April 28, 2009 at 7:41 pm I hope you guys are working on one of these for 9.04Ive just updated, and use this set of resources like a crutch when trying to get Oracle installed on Ubuntu. From my own efforts using the 8.10 instructions, it seems that the sh>bash relinking causes Gnome to fail to start up. Havent tried the oracle install itself yet, might give that a shot and try reverting the relinking step after successful install. Reply

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Augusto Bott says: April 29, 2009 at 7:41 am @Eric, Yes were working on a 9.04 version of this tutorial. Stay tuned! Reply

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demond says: May 7, 2009 at 2:23 pm Hi, Another successful Oracle11g installation on ubuntu intrepid. Thanks a lot!!! [the key is : cat /etc/oratab... N=>Y] ~~~~~~~ Reply

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Moataz M. Ayoub says: May 7, 2009 at 5:26 pm I used these steps on my freshly installed jaunty with few modica ons like export DISPLAY=:0.0 and adding sample schemas. worked just fine THX ALOT. Reply

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Mncedisi Kasper says: May 12, 2009 at 6:45 am Greetings. Much appreciatedused the exact same steps for jaunty as well and it works brilliantly. Regards

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MFiras says: May 12, 2009 at 12:38 pm Cheers Greate , well done. finish install 11.1.0.6 on ubuntu 9.0.4 with no error. Thx ALOT. Reply

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benyo says: May 14, 2009 at 11:06 am Hi! I just have to do this, but my problem is, that I need to manage my virtual X server from a Win XP. So could someone help, me on how to export the display to Xming? Reply

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irhabi says: May 18, 2009 at 3:48 pm Thanks a lot!! Works great with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope! ;) Reply

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Amit Arora says: May 22, 2009 at 3:51 am Hi This is excellent. I just configured my oracle 11g on 8.10, its working fine. I had some problems initiating the oui as export DISPLAY didnt worked for me. So, referred Oracle OTN forums and copied .Xauthority file from other user to oracle users home and did chown & chmod so that oracle user can access. Then export DISPLAY again and this time I was able to run xclock and initiated the OUI successfully. Next, I have installed oracle 11g client on my laptop running Ubuntu Hardy that went fine, but I am facing issue connecting to my Oracle server just configured, any help would be appreciated. Regards Amit Reply

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Gebman says: May 23, 2009 at 4:19 pm Everything went smoothly for me until the very end. When I run oracledb start i get: TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 Production Log messages written to /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/smbserver/listener/alert/log.xml Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=smbserver)(PORT=1521))) Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521)) TNS12535: TNS:operation timed out TNS12560: TNS:protocol adapter error TNS00505: Operation timed out Linux Error: 110: Connection timed out I dont seem to have a listener.ora file or anything. Did I miss something? It doesnt seem to know the HOST name in the last part. I am installing on Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop edition. Thanks. Reply

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Kevin Sheehan says: May 27, 2009 at 12:23 am Great post! I tried the same steps with the 9.0.4 Ubuntu Server. Mostly works. First issue was the link for extproc failed but installing libaiodev (which includes libaio1) fixed that issue. However, extproc32 link also failed as well as the 32bit version of insctx. Have not figured these out yet bit I dont use these components so I dont really care. Reply

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Augusto Bott says: May 27, 2009 at 3:17 pm @Kevin, A new version, for Ubuntu 9.04 is on the works, about to be published. Keep tuned! Reply

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May 29, 2009 at 6:25 pm This works for 10.2 on 9.04 with minor differences in the actual GUI install. A note on 64bit versions of 9.04, when installing 10.2 the universtal installer requires 32bit libc to be installed otherwise you will get the .oui error mentioned in some of the posts above. Reply

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Dave Vree says: June 10, 2009 at 10:07 pm Trying to get this working for 64bit 9.04 with 64bit oracle 11GR1. Following the instructions, I get an error right away when I run the installer. Right after it runs the tests it says Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Install from yada yada Please wait And then I get the following error: sh: /media/database/install/unzip: No such file or directory Guessing that it was a 32bit program I installed ia32libs and got past the error. Reply

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daniel collins says: June 11, 2009 at 9:36 am Finally sorted the 64bit Oracle issue (failing to build libagtsh.so and extproc32/ctxhx which depend on that. In ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib32/stubs, you need to update libc.so and libpthread.so. in libc.so, change: GROUP ( libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a ) to GROUP ( /lib32/libc.so.6 /usr/lib32/libc_nonshared.a ) and in libpthread.so change GROUP ( /lib/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib/libpthread_nonshared.a ) to GROUP ( /lib32/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib32/libpthread_nonshared.a ) Must be to do with where Ubuntu puts its 32bit libraries compared with Redhat? Hope that helps.

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aristipp says: September 1, 2009 at 6:22 am Works well! Good work! With your help i managed it to install Oracle 11g on a Debian 5.0 machine, there are only a few minor differences. Iam planning to write an article about it on my website and i will post a big link to your excellent explanation! Reply

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Bob SIslow says: September 22, 2009 at 1:48 am I successfully completed an 11gR2 installation toinght on my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. One additional package was needed during installation: sudo aptget install libstdc++5 Thanks for the guide! Reply

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lardy says: October 6, 2009 at 3:43 pm Very nice install, worked a treat on Ubuntu 9.0.4 server. Thanks you !! Reply

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penguin says: November 15, 2009 at 1:19 pm

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This worked great for installing 11g2 on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10. A few things had to be changed, path names and such are slightly different. But it was still pretty painless. Confirmation screen shows up blank like a few others. System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects = None Good work, very helpful!! Reply

Shanthi says: January 19, 2010 at 7:46 pm I am getting linking errors. Exception Name: MakefileException Exception String: Error in invoking target install of makefile /app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ctx/lib /ins_ctx.mk What packages did you install? Reply

Laurent Sion says: June 7, 2010 at 6:31 am probably too late for you, but for the record: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1077139&tstart=0 Laurent Reply

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Raj says: November 16, 2009 at 1:49 pm Hello, Thanks so much for this wonderful guide! Im having one problem that only one script shows up at the end of the install (/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/oraibex/root.sh). The orainstRoot.sh script is not shown. Also, the oraInventory directory always gets created under /home/oracle even though Ive set ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME vars in /etc/profile as well as /etc/profile.d/oradb.sh. Have tried this install several times now! Please help!! Thanks, Raj Reply

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peep says: November 21, 2009 at 8:47 pm @penguin hi penguin, can you tell me, what did you have to change in order to install the latest oracle 11g R2 on Ubuntu 9.10? I am getting this error message: ./runInstaller: line 137: /media/database/install/.oui: No such file or directory I dont see any .oui file under any of the database folders, how/when should this be created? thanks. Reply

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peep says: November 22, 2009 at 5:50 pm Hi again, thanks for this VERY HELPFUL guide. Since it was not just my first time to install Oracle on Linux, but also first time to install Linux, so I couldnt have managed without this manual! :) Today I finally got everything working, it took 5 hours from scratch to install Ubuntu 9.10 + ssh + desktop + updates + Oracle 11g R1 warehouse database for educational purposes. There were some things that didnt match the guide but bits of data from many different comments also came in handy. And of course Google. Have to create my own manual now to guarantee that next time would be more fluent.

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Fabio says: December 22, 2009 at 5:45 pm

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Hello everyone! For those who have problems with remote display, I quickly avoided the problem as follows: on workstation: ssh X oracle@ /home/oracle/software/database/runInstaller or ssh X oracle@ /opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome/bin/dbca I hope you will appreciate!:) regards Fabio p.s.: maybe you can find my guide useful: http://notesondm.blogspot.com/2009/12/howinstalloracledatabase 11g.html Reply

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Jason says: December 24, 2009 at 12:54 am Im getting this error trying to install oracle 10g on Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit): ./runInstaller: line 52: /media/database/install/.oui: No such file or directory The file exists and the permissions are fine. Did anyone with the same problem resolve it? Peep, looks like you had the problem and the next day you were done installing please help :) Reply

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Aaron says: February 21, 2010 at 9:45 pm I have found that dbca (Database Configuration Assistance) will not run when I switch to being the oracle user ie su oracle. However, if I use the original account that was setup on the system, dbca launches without a problem. Additionally, I tested using the root account but it too acts the same as with the oracle account. The error is: No command dbca found, did you mean: Command dba from package wise (universal) Command dbck from package lyskomserver (universal) dbca: command not found Reply

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Aaron says: February 21, 2010 at 9:59 pm It looks as even though it allows the dbca to launch it cannot create the database since that account does not have the rights. Does anyone know how to use the oracle account to run dbca? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Reply

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lardy says: March 1, 2010 at 3:46 pm If any one is having link errors with the ins_ctx.mk file you can try installing the libstdc++.so.5 library. I had this problem and when I ran the make command manually it compalined that this library could not be found. Cheers Reply

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marceli says: March 3, 2010 at 10:31 am @Aaron export $ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 su oracle $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca Reply

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marceli says: March 3, 2010 at 10:33 am @Aaron try also ./dbca instead of dbca

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Mike Smithers says: March 14, 2010 at 2:49 pm Thanks for a really comprehensive guide. Ive used this as a basis for working out how to deploy 11g Release 2 on Ubuntu 9.10. The steps for this are at : http://mikesmithers.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/installingoracle11gr2onubuntu910 Reply

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d singh says: May 7, 2010 at 9:22 am tanx for this Reply

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Ayesha says: June 14, 2010 at 11:14 am Hi I want to install Oracle SOA Suite 11g on Linux environment. But im not sure which distribution I should use.I read somewhere that ubuntu is not suported by SOA suite. Will you please help me out in this? Reply

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motiur says: July 13, 2010 at 8:39 am Any idea to install 10g or 11g standard edition on ubuntu lucid lynx.

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Nigel Vining says: August 25, 2010 at 2:23 am Thank You Success first time with 11gR2 installed on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 (64bit) following your instructions Reply

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