32-bit Oracle 11g in Slackware 14.1

Installing software

• download Oracle 11g binaries from oracle.com
• copy 32-bit version of libstdc++.so.5.0.7 to /usr/lib/
• create link /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 to /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7
• create link /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
• create user oracle with single group users
• switch to user oracle and unpack downloaded parts of Oracle 11g
• merge them in single directory database
• execute runInstaller
• select Install database sofware only, do not install Enterprise manager
• ignore all checks and prerequisites
• during installation there will be one error when compiling emdctl, ignore it and continue

Creating database

• setup several variables for oracle user

cat /home/oracle/.bashrc
export ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

• run dbca command and setup DB options
• edit /etc/oratab - switch N to Y

Now you should be able to start and stop oracle instanse from user oracle with these commands:

dbstart $ORACLE_HOME
dbshut $ORACLE_HOME