Because the way to install Oracle 19c on a SuSE Leap 15.1 is not that easy, I will give this information for other people having similar problem.
1) download SuSE Leap 15.1 from https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap?locale=de
2) install SuSE Leap 15.1 on a hard disk (HDD or SDD) - I preferred to install desktop version)
3) download Oracle 19c (LINUX.X64_193000_db_home.zip - yes only zip is working for SuSE) from
https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/oracle-database-software-downloads.html --> "See All"
4) Prerequests (taken out of https://oracle-base.com/articles/19c/oracle-db-19c-installation-on-oracle-linux-7#manual_setup):
The "/etc/hosts" file must contain a fully qualified name for the server.
<IP-address> <fully-qualified-machine-name> <machine-name>
For example.
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
192.168.56.107 suse19.localdomain suse19
Set the correct hostname in the "/etc/hostname" file.
suse19.localdomain
Add the following lines to the "/etc/sysctl.conf" file, or in a file called "/etc/sysctl.d/98-oracle.conf".
fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 1073741824
kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104
kernel.panic_on_oops = 1
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 1048576
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500
Run one of the following commands to change the current kernel parameters, depending on which file you edited.
/sbin/sysctl -p
# Or
/sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/98-oracle.conf
Add the following lines to a file called "/etc/security/limits.d/oracle-database-preinstall-19c.conf" file.
oracle soft nofile 1024
oracle hard nofile 65536
oracle soft nproc 16384
oracle hard nproc 16384
oracle soft stack 10240
oracle hard stack 32768
oracle hard memlock 134217728
oracle soft memlock 134217728
The following packages are listed as required. Many of the packages should be installed already.
==> I installed them with "yast --> software manager" not with yum - although I added to installed yum
yum install -y bc yum install -y binutils yum install -y compat-libcap1 yum install -y compat-libstdc++-33 #yum install -y dtrace-modules #yum install -y dtrace-modules-headers #yum install -y dtrace-modules-provider-headers yum install -y dtrace-utils yum install -y elfutils-libelf yum install -y elfutils-libelf-devel yum install -y fontconfig-devel yum install -y glibc yum install -y glibc-devel yum install -y ksh yum install -y libaio yum install -y libaio-devel yum install -y libdtrace-ctf-devel yum install -y libXrender yum install -y libXrender-devel yum install -y libX11 yum install -y libXau yum install -y libXi yum install -y libXtst yum install -y libgcc yum install -y librdmacm-devel yum install -y libstdc++ yum install -y libstdc++-devel yum install -y libxcb yum install -y make yum install -y net-tools # Clusterware yum install -y nfs-utils # ACFS yum install -y python # ACFS yum install -y python-configshell # ACFS yum install -y python-rtslib # ACFS yum install -y python-six # ACFS yum install -y targetcli # ACFS yum install -y smartmontools yum install -y sysstat
Create the new groups and users.
groupadd -g 54321 oinstall
groupadd -g 54322 dba
groupadd -g 54323 oper
#groupadd -g 54324 backupdba
#groupadd -g 54325 dgdba
#groupadd -g 54326 kmdba
#groupadd -g 54327 asmdba
#groupadd -g 54328 asmoper
#groupadd -g 54329 asmadmin
#groupadd -g 54330 racdba
useradd -u 54321 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle
Set the password for the "oracle" user.
passwd oracle
Set secure Linux to permissive by editing the "/etc/selinux/config" file, making sure the SELINUX flag is set as follows.
(SuSE Leap 15.1 do not support SELINUX in that way that it is working fine) --> I skipped this hole option)
SELINUX=permissive
Once the change is complete, restart the server or run the following command.
# setenforce Permissive
If you have the Linux firewall enabled, you will need to disable or configure it, as shown here or here. To disable it, do the following.
# systemctl stop firewalld # systemctl disable firewalld
if you are not using Oracle Linux and UEK, you will need to manually disable transparent huge pages.
create directories (my ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle, my ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/ora19c/db_home1, my ORACLE_SID=ora19c, my oracle-user is "ora19c"
# export ORACLE_BASE=/opt/oracle
# export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/ora19c/db_home1
#
# mkdir $ORACLE_BASE
# chmod 775 $ORACLE_BASE
# chown -R oracle.oinstall $ORACLE_BASE
# xhost +<machine-name>
set ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME in ~oracle/.profile
( you can take a .profile from another installed user as template)
# su - oracle
<passwd>
$ mkdir -p $ORACLE_HOME
$ chmod -R 775 $ORACLE_BASE
5) Run the installer as user "oracle"
su - oracle
<passwd>
./runInstaller
--> on SuSE Leap15.1 I got an error:
Prerequisite checks fails-PRVG-0282 : failed to retrieve the operating system distribution ID
if you get this error message --> abort installation
--> edit file "$ORACLE_HOME/cv/admin/cvu_config" and set
"CV_ASSUME_DISTID=SUSE15" and rerun installer
5) missing packages ( I started ./runInstaller with log and debug: -logLevel finest and -debug )
--> with debug you can see which packages are loaded and which are expected
open another terminal and install missing packages with "yast - software manager"
I ended up with eight missing packages - but only warnings:
- libstdc++33-3.3.3-62.1 (solved in next option)
- libjpeg-turbo-1.3.1
- libjpeg62-32bit-62.1.0
- libjpeg62-turbo-1.3.1
- libpcre16-0-8.41 (unsolved but only warning)
- gcc-c++-32bit-7-1.563
- JDK-1.8.0.5.151 (unsolved but only warning)
- libgfortran3-4.8.3 (solved in next option)
6) I found those packages for SuSE Leap 15.1 by google:
- libgfortran3-gcc48-4.8.5-201.1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/gcc/SLE-11/x86_64/
- libstdc++33-3.3.3-63.1.x86_64.rpm ( standalone rpm out of SLE11-Linux)
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/3/srodzaj/1/search/libstdc%2B%2B.so.5%28%29%2864bit%29
7) Continue installation via runInstaller. I got an error at Listener configuration - retry and it was solved
8) Disable unused features as user oracle
cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin<br/> chopt disable oaa<br/> chopt disable olap<br/> chopt disable partitioning<br/> chopt disable rat
9) after installation of database you can continue with installation of other Oracle products
- remember to set CV_ASSUME_DISTID=SUSE15 " in some cvu_config" files
--> edit file "$NEW_PRODUCT_PATH/stage/cv/admin/cvu_config" and set
"CV_ASSUME_DISTID=SUSE15" and rerun installer