Question

just completed installing oracle linux 6 update 2 on my virtual box and i have been trying to install oracle 11gr2 on the same operating system i am following the installation guide but i have encountered some problems when i run this command on my terminal

yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall

i am getting an error

no package oracle-rdbms-server-11gr2-preinstall available
error nothing to do

is there any way i am doing this wrongly??how can i install the oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall

Answer 1

It seem you don’t have oracle repository configured, do following:

As an authorized user (for example, root), retrieve the file that configures repository locations:

$sudo cd /etc/yum.repos.d

$sudo wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo

Using a text editor, modify the file, changing the field enabled=0 to enabled=1 to reflect repositories that correspond to the machine’s operating system release.

Next, install the oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall RPM using the yum install command.

The output in Listing 1 shows how the installation checks dependencies and then downloads and installs the required packages.

$sudo yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall