01 Create Oracle Client

Overview

REDFERN has been created as a client machine.

Procedure

Download Client Files

The 11.1.0.6 Client for Linux is downloaded from OTN .

Create an oracle User

A user called oracle is created with primary group of oinstall .

Unzip the Client Files

Used the following commands to extract the client files into the home directory of the oracle user:

cd /mnt/hgfs/Downloads
unzip linux_x86_11gR1_client.zip -d ~

Install the Client

Install the Linux Oracle Client as follows:

cd ~/client
./runInstaller

The Oracle Base is /home/oracle/app/oracle .