Install Oracle 23c database free for Developers

 In this article we will learn how to Install Oracle 23c database free for Developers

First, get your downloaded files i.e :

oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm

The above files can be downloaded from Oracle's web site : 

https://www.oracle.com/database/free/

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# ls -ltr

total 1717556

-rwxrw-rw-. 1 root root 1758776440 May 10 22:03 oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# rpm -ivh oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm 

warning: oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID ad986da3: NOKEY

error: Failed dependencies:

oracle-database-preinstall-23c is needed by oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.x86_64

Here if you see i dont have the oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm package.

Lets install this misssing package to ensure the preinstall rpm work is done.

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# ls -ltr

total 1717588

-rwxrw-rw-. 1 root root 1758776440 May 10 22:03 oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

-rw-------. 1 root root      30688 May 10 22:07 oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# rpm -ivh oracle-database-

oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm          oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm  

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# rpm -ivh oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm 

warning: oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID ad986da3: NOKEY

error: Failed dependencies:

compat-openssl10 is needed by oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64

glibc-devel is needed by oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64

ksh is needed by oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64

libnsl is needed by oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64

make is needed by oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64

sysstat is needed by oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# rpm --nodeps -ivh oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm --force

warning: oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.0-0.5.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID ad986da3: NOKEY

Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]

Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]

Updating / installing...

   1:oracle-database-preinstall-23c-1.################################# [100%]

[root@node1-example-com Documents]# rpm -ivh oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm 

warning: oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID ad986da3: NOKEY

Verifying...                          ################################# [100%]

Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]

Updating / installing...

   1:oracle-database-free-23c-1.0-1   ################################# [100%]

root

[INFO] Executing post installation scripts...

[INFO] Oracle home installed successfully and ready to be configured.

To configure Oracle Database Free, optionally modify the parameters in '/etc/sysconfig/oracle-free-23c.conf' and then run '/etc/init.d/oracle-free-23c configure' as root.