Issues installing 11.2.0.4 (and 11.2.0.3) on Linux 7 (RHEL7 and OEL7)

REHL 7 and Oracle Linux 7 was not released when Oracle database 11.2.0.4 came out, so the installer does give some issues in the pre-requisites and when installing the software. I advice to do a software only installation first, because of an issue that you will need to fix with a patch after software installation, but before creating a database.

These issues popped-up when I was installing a 11.2.0.3 database on RHEL7 (not a Certified product combination!), but the solutions given for 11.2.0.4 worked for it as well:

  • elfutils-libelf-devel package missing;
  • compat-libstdc++ package missing;
  • pdksh package missing;
  • “Error in invoking target ‘agent nmhs’ of makefile” when installing.
    • This one also counts for installing Oracle Fusion Middleware.

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