Oracle Database 19c Installation on Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)

This article describes the installation of Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux 7 (OL7) on VirtualBox.

Introduction:

For installing 19c in your laptop or desktop, computer should have minimum 4 GB or more of RAM required, and minimum 30GB or more of storage required.

This article uses the 64-bit versions of Oracle Linux 7 and Oracle 19c.

Prerequisite: Oracle Linux 7 Install on VirtualBox

Download Software:

Download Oracle 19c database software for Linux x86-64 from OTN or edelivery and copy the files to linux server (on VirtualBox) using winscp or shared folder.

Oracle Installation Prerequisites

Either you can perform Automatic setup  or Manual setup to complete the prerequisites.

Automatic Setup:

Install "oracle-database-preinstall-19c" package to perform all prerequisite setup. use the following command

# yum install -y oracle-database-preinstall-19c           

Manual Setup:

If you have not used the "oracle-database-preinstall-19c" package to perform all prerequisites, you have to manually perform the following setup tasks.

Default "LISTENER" is not configured when running DBCA

While creating a new database using DBCA, received below error.

Default Listener "LISTENER" is not configured in Grid Infrastructure home. Use NetCA to configure Default Listener and rerun DBCA

Here, no need to run NETCA, all we need is to create new LISTENER as follows.

SRVCTL ADD LISTENER

SRVCTL START LISTENER

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