Oracle 11g R2: Oracle 11.2.0.3 installation on Solaris 11 11.1

Prerequisites

Operating System Requirements

Starting with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), Oracle Database is also supported on the following operating system versions (or later):

• Oracle Solaris 11 11.1 SPARC

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24346/pre_install.htm#BABFDCAB

Note:

No special kernel parameters, packages, or patches are required at the time of this release for Oracle Solaris 11.

Pre Installation

Increase ZFS swap space to 16GB
# zfs get volsize rpool/swap
NAME        PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
rpool/swap  volsize   4G     local
# zfs set volsize=16g rpool/swap
# zfs get volsize rpool/swap
NAME        PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
rpool/swap  volsize   16G    local

Installation

Login as oracle and set env variable AWT_TOOLKIT to XToolkit
$ export AWT_TOOLKIT=XToolkit
$ ./runInstaller
/usr2/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3

Post Installation

add below entries to .profile or .bash_profile accordingly:

stty erase "^?" kill "^u" intr "^c" echoe -tabs hupcl
umask 022

TERM=vt100
export TERM

ORACLE_HOME=/usr2/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3
export ORACLE_HOME

#ORACLE_BASE=/usr2/app
#export ORACLE_BASE

ORACLE_SID=V11SID
export ORACLE_SID

ORACLE_TERM=vt220
export ORACLE_TERM

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib/bsd-socket/usr/lib:/usr/lbin:/opt/bin
export PATH

ORACLE_DOC=$ORACLE_HOME/odoc
export ORACLE_DOC

TMPDIR=/tmp
export TMPDIR

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32:$ORACLE_HOME/JRE/lib/ptx/green_threads:/usr/lib/bsd-socket:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/X11
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/JRE/lib/ptx/green_threads:/usr/lib/bsd-socket:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/X11
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64

SHLIB_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32
export SHLIB_PATH

TNS_ADMIN=/var/opt/oracle
export TNS_ADMIN
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/product/jlib
export CLASSPATH
LD_RUN_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export LD_RUN_PATH