Well having installed and worked with R12.0.4 it very fast becomes clear that a new version is needed.
So I downloaded R12.1.1 from Oracle eDelivery. 40 files in excess of 45Gb to the joy of my ISP.
NOTE until 20/11-2009 there was a corrupt file on eDelivery and it took me a while to convince Oracle [...]
This is a couple of useful scripts to test downloaded files.
This approach is recommended when downloading huge amounts of data like when downloading Oracle R12 installations files.
In addition to testing the downloaded files also be sure to use a download manager.
The basic zip test command is:
$ unzip –t –qq {zipfile}
I made a Linux script for [...]
So you got R12 up and running and want to connect to it from a Vbox machine?
I’m running R12.0.4 on OEL5.3 with Virtualbox 2.2.2 having a Windows 7 machine.
R12
R12 is installed on OEL with the hostname: localhost.localdomain
Firefox works locally against R12 so the EBS stack in working at this point.
Start the database, listener and apps. [...]
Well why make a post about this?
OEL does not seem to be a complete operating system – it feels like Linux 5 years ago with loads of drivers missing and command line fiddling.
One chapter for each part…
Graphics
This does work out of the box but the built in driver is not great and make the fan [...]
This post is written in Windows 7 RC running in Virtualbox inside Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.3 – good fun!
OEL is in reality a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is a bit amputated in term of applications and drivers.
The reason for this constellation is OEL 5.3 Supports eBusiness Suite R12 and RDBMS 10g.
Next step is [...]
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Firefox
Firefox 3 does not work with R12. I could get forms to work however framework pages had problems with buttons. So install Firefox 2 instead.
Java Plug-in
For R12.0.4 on OEL desktop you want to use JRE 1.5.0.13 otherwise you have to fiddle with [...]
Use this script (vis.sh) to initialise the Oracle environment.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Run as Oracle user:
$ . ./vis.sh
Note the double dots to keep assign variables to the current environment.
#!/bin/bash ORACLE_SID=VIS [...]
This article applies to EBS 12.0.4 on OEL5.3.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Login
This is my own login script which you can see here.
Login to OEL as Oracle and run login script:
$ . ./vis.sh
Ensure you also got the first dot so it is the current environment you are [...]
This is the hardware and software I use for the R12 Laptop.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Laptop
My laptop is a Dell XPS M1530 with the following specs:
CPU
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.40 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache)
Memory
3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048+1x1024]
Video [...]
Use this script (apmall.sh) to update OEL5.3 with correct libraries.
I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running.
Update the SOURCE environment variable with your source dir.
First try to run
$ ./rpmall.sh chk
to show what is missing and then install with:
$ ./rpmall.sh inst
But beware this script is flawed. I did change [...]
