Oracle 12c (12.2.0.1) binaries Installation on Oracle Linux 7

In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1.0) software on Oracle Linux 7.4.  Only the software is being installed at this point.

First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum hardware requirements:

• 1GB of RAM (plus appropriately sized swap space)
• 6.4GB of disk space for the software installation
• 1GB of disk space for your /tmp directory

Download the database 12c software

You need to download both Oracle Database 12cR2 parts from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

Once you’ve downloaded the software, unzip file to a staging area:

[oracle@localhost 12c]$ ll

total 3372756

drwxr-xr-x. 7 oracle oinstall       4096 Jan 26  2017 database

-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 3453696911 Nov 11 00:22 linuxx64_12201_database.zip

[oracle@localhost 12c]$ cd database/

[oracle@localhost database]$ ll

total 24

drwxr-xr-x.  4 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 26  2017 install

drwxrwxr-x.  2 oracle oinstall   61 Jan 26  2017 response

drwxr-xr-x.  2 oracle oinstall   35 Jan 26  2017 rpm

-rwxr-xr-x.  1 oracle oinstall 8771 Jan 26  2017 runInstaller

drwxrwxr-x.  2 oracle oinstall   29 Jan 26  2017 sshsetup

drwxr-xr-x. 14 oracle oinstall 4096 Jan 26  2017 stage

-rwxr-xr-x.  1 oracle oinstall  500 Feb  7  2013 welcome.html

[oracle@localhost database]$ 

So we successfully completed the software installation of Oracle 12CR2. Happy DBA'ing :)