Running Oracle Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3
In order to install an Oracle9iR2 database on RH AS 3, the "Oracle9iR2 Patch
Set 3 9.2.0.4.0" patchset and some other patches must be applied. Some errors can only be fixed by applying the 9.2.0.4 patchset.
Installing Oracle9iR2
Install the following RPMs (see Oracle Note:252217.1 for more information):
su - root
rpm -ivh \
compat-db-4.0.14-5.i386.rpm \
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm \
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm \
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm \
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm \
openmotif21-2.1.30-8.i386.rpm \
setarch-1.3-1.i386.rpm \
tcl-8.3.5-92.i386.rpm

Relink gcc so that the older gcc will be used during the Oracle installation
(see Oracle Note:252217.1 for more information):

su - root
mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc323
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc
mv /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++323 # if g++ doesn't exist, then gcc-c++ was not  installed
ln -s /usr/bin/g++296 /usr/bin/g++
When you execute runInstaller from the Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) CD, you will get the following error message:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Unable to load native library: /tmp/OraInstall2003-10-25_03-14-57PM/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so:
symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
To resolve resolve the __libc_wait symbol issue, download the patch p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip from http://metalink.oracle.com. See bug 3006854 for more information.

To apply the patch, run

su - root
# unzip p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip
Archive: p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip
creating: 3006854/
inflating: 3006854/rhel3_pre_install.sh
inflating: 3006854/README.txt
# cd 3006854
# sh rhel3_pre_install.sh
Applying patch...
Patch successfully applied
#
NOTE: If you get the following error when you run rhel3_pre_install.sh: rhel3_pre_install.sh: line 36: gcc: command not found
Then you forgot to install or link gcc, see above. This means you can't start any binaries any more:
# ls
ls: error while loading shared libraries: /etc/libcwait.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
#
To fix that, run:
# echo "" > /etc/ld.so.preload
rm /etc/ld.so.preload
And start over again.
Now runInstaller can be started from the CD:
su - oracle
$ echo $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL # it is important that this variable is set!
2.4.1
$ /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller
- Welcome Screen: Click Next
- Inventory Location: Click Next
- Unix Group Name: Use "oinstall" and click Next
When asked to run /tmp/orainstRoot.sh, run it before you click Continue
- File Locations: Use default values
- Available Products: Select "Oracle9i Database 9.2.0.1.0"
- Installation Types: Select Custom since we only want to install the software for now
- Available Products: Click Next or add some more components.
- Components Locations: Accept default values and click Next
- Privileged Operating System Groups:
I used the default values: OSDBA Group = dba, OSOPER Group = dba
- Oracle Managent Server Repository:
I used the default choice
- Create database: Select NO since we first have to patch Oracle before a database can be created!
- Summary: Start the Install
- Configuration tools: Tools won't come up. Simply ignore it.
- At the end of the installation, exit runInstaller.
You may get the following errors:
Error in invoking target install of makefile /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk.
The /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/install/make.log file reads:
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/libnmi.a(snmitcln.o)(.text+0xa4e): In  function `Nls_FormatCmd':
: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/libnmi.a(snmitcln.o)(.text+0x159d): In function `Nls_ScanCmd':
: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/libnmi.a(snmitcln.o)(.text+0x1603): more undefined references to `__ctype_b' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [dbsnmp] Error 1
Click ignore. This will be fixed by applying the patch 3119415 after the 9.2.0.4 patchset has been applied. You won't be able to apply the patch 3119415 at this time since the file /opt/oracle/oraInventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml
doesn't exist yet.
Error in invoking target install of makefile /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk.
The /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/install/make.log file reads:
/usr/bin/ld: ctxhx: hidden symbol `stat' in /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(stat.oS) is referenced by DSO
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ctxhx] Error 1
Click ignore. This is fixed by applying the 9.2.0.4 patchset.
Patching Oracle9iR2:
To patch Oracle9iR2, download the Oracle 9i Release 2 Patch Set 3 Version 9.2.0.4.0 for Linux x86 from http://metalink.oracle.com.
Copy the downloaded "p3095277_9204_LINUX.zip" file to e.g. /tmp and run the following command:

su - oracle
$ cp p3095277_9204_LINUX.zip /tmp
$ cd /tmp
$ unzip p3095277_9204_LINUX.zip
Archive: p3095277_9204_LINUX.zip
inflating: 9204_lnx32_release.cpio
inflating: README.html
inflating: patchnote.css
$
$ cpio -idmv < 9204_lnx32_release.cpio
Disk1/stage/locks
Disk1/stage/Patches/oracle.apache.isqlplus/9.2.0.4.0/1/DataFiles/bin.1.1.jar

Disk1/stage/Patches/oracle.apache.isqlplus/9.2.0.4.0/1/DataFiles/lib.1.1.jar

...
To patch the runInstaller, run:
su - oracle
$ echo $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL # it is important that this variable is set!
2.4.1
$ cd /tmp/Disk1/
$ ./runInstaller
- Welcome Screen: Click Next
- File Locations: Use default values
- Available Products: Select "Oracle Universial Installer 2.2.0.18.0 !"
- Components Locations: Accept default values and click Next
- Summary: Start the Install
- At the end of the installation, exit runInstaller!

To patch Oracle9iR2, run:

su - oracle
$ echo $LD_ASSUME_KERNEL # it is important that this variable is set!
2.4.1
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ ./runInstaller
- Welcome Screen: Click Next
- File Locations: Use default values
- Available Products: Select "Oracle9iR2 Patch Set 3 9.2.0.4.0 !"
- Summary: Start the Install
- At the end of the installation, exit runInstaller
You may get the following error:
Error in invoking target install of makefile /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk.
The /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/install/make.log file reads:
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/libnmi.a(snmitcl.o)(.text+0x1cc): In function `get_ora_stmt_handle':
: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/libnmi.a(snmitcl.o)(.text+0x124e): In function `OraProcess_Oid':
: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
/opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/libnmi.a(snmitcl.o)(.text+0x176c): more undefined references to `__ctype_b' follow collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [dbsnmp] Error 1

Click ignore. This will be fixed by applying the patch 3119415 after the 9.2.0.4 patchset has been applied. The patch 3119415 cannot be applied while the patch process for the 9.2.0.4 patchset is running.
After the 9.2.0.4 patchset has been applied, download the patch p3119415_9204_LINUX.zip from http://metalink.oracle.com. See bug 3119415 for more information. Also, download the opatch Release 2.2.0 utility from http://metalink.oracle.com. See bug 2617419 for more information.

To install opatch, run:

su - oracle
$ cp p2617419_210_GENERIC.zip /tmp
$ cd /tmp
$ unzip p2617419_210_GENERIC.zip

Before you apply the 3119415 patch, you need to make sure the fuser is accessable by the oracle user, see below. Otherwise the patch can't be applied since fuser is used by opatch.
To apply the 3119415 patch, run

su - oracle
$ unzip p3119415_9204_LINUX.zip
$ cd 3119415
$ export PATH=$PATH:/tmp/OPatch
$ export PATH=$PATH:/sbin # the patch needs "fuser" which is located in /sbin
$ which opatch
/tmp/OPatch/opatch
$ opatch apply

Now you should be able to create a database with dbca:

su - oracle
dbca

And don't forget to undo the changes (links) to /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ if you don't need it any more. Also don't forget the /etc/ld.so.preload file.