Oracle Applications Installation Update Notes, Release 11i (11.5.10.2) [ID 31680 6.

1] 1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5* The following packages are not part of the Oracle Linux 5 or RHEL 5 distribution media and must be installed manually1: * * * * compat-libstdc++-egcs-1.1.2-1 compat-libcwait-2.1-1 compat-oracle-el5-1.0-5 openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5

Ensure that the following are installed from the Oracle Linux 5 or RHEL 5 distri bution media: * * * * * * binutils-2.17.50.0.6-5.el5 libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5 compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26 compat-libgcc-296-2.96-138 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 compat-db-4.2.52-5.1

*After installing these patches, run ldconfig -v 2) java -version => java version "1.4.2" 3) Kernel Requirements => 2.6.18-194.el5PAE 4) rpm -q glibc => glibc-2.5-49 5) Modifying the Number of Open File Descriptors Open the /etc/security/limits.conf file and change the existing values for "hard " and "soft" parameters as follows. Restart the system after making changes. For Oracle Linux 4 and 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 and SUSE Linux Ent erprise Server 9 and 10: * hard nofile 65535 * soft nofile 4096 6) Create symbolic links. For Oracle Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 only : # ln -s /usr/bin/ld215 /usr/bin/ld Download and apply the OS library patch 6078836 from My Oracle Support and creat e the following symbolic link: # ln -s /usr/lib/libdb.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb.so.3 7) Completing Preinstallation Tasks - Unset the NLS_LANG environment variable - For Oracle Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Serve r 10 customers, the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable should be unset before starting the installation. ** For Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 3 (5.3), us ers will see a failure when running Rapid Install. Users must edit the file $STA GE_TOP/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz/bin/runWizard.sh and comment out lines 122-125, as in: # if test "$exit_code" == "0" ; then # LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19

# export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL # fi