OEL (Linux)

Running oracle-database-preinstall-21c on a RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 Linux flavor

With Oracle Linux 8 you just run – because the package comes with # dnf install -y oracle-database-preinstall-21c and then If you want optionally # yum update -y But for non-Oracle dialects like RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 you can download and bang the package in as follows – saves a lot of time curl …

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Setting DISPLAY environment variable syntax changes with Gnome

Centos8 Gnome DISPLAY is set like this: export DISPLAY=:0 In other words normally for xWindows you do something like this to set your DISPLAY variable prior to running an xApp like: export DISPLAY=<machine-name>:0.0 With Gnome the syntax is: export DISPLAY=:0 All other common version of setting display do not work on Gnome. One other tip – it …

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XWindows didn’t get installed on your RHEL 8/7 (or clone centos etc). Then do this

BTW if XWindows is not loaded on your linux app for RHEL or clones you can go here, download the RPM and do a yum install like this: Another oddity – with Centos8 Gnome DISPLAY is set like this: export DISPLAY=:0 In other words normally for xWindows you do something like this to set your …

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Installing, configuring, and starting noip DUC Dynamic Update Client For EC2 Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 7, RHEL 7, Oracle Linux 7

# Installing, configuring, and starting noip DUC Dynamic Update Client For EC2 Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 7, RHEL 7, Oracle Linux 7. For those who have not heard and care, AWS released an AMI Linux 2 image for EC2 – that is systemd based & appears to be RHEL 7 based in December of 2017. …

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E-Business Suite Pre-Install RPM (available for Oracle Linux 5, 6 and 7)

Per Oracle Support Doc ID: 761566.1 E-Business Suite Pre-Install RPM (available for Oracle Linux 5, 6 and 7) The E-Business Suite pre-install package (oracle-ebs-server-R12-preinstall) for Oracle Linux 5, 6 and 7 is available on the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN, which requires a support contract) or from the Oracle public yum repository (under the ‘Add-ons’ channel) for these Oracle Linux …

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