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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Checking installer requirements… Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3...



While installing Oracle 10g on SuSE 11 ENT. getting a  below error.

$./runInstaller

Checking installer requirements… Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2 Failed <<<<

This is because Oracle Enterprise Linux has been released years after Oracle Database 10g has been released.
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As normal user that will own the oracle software
copy file /install/oraparam.ini to /tmp



$ cp database/install/oraparam.ini /tmp
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edit /tmp/oraparam.ini



$ vi /tmp/oraparam.ini
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Cange
[Certified Versions]
Linux=redhat-3,SuSE-9,redhat-4,UnitedLinux-1.0,asianux-1,asianux-2
to
[Certified Versions]
Linux=redhat-3,SuSE-9,redhat-4,UnitedLinux-1.0,asianux-1,asianux-2,SuSE 11
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Run the installer again:


$ ./runInstaller -paramFile /tmp/oraparam.ini