Oracle EBS R12.1.3_Installation_linux(64bit)_Pan_Tian

Oracle Application R12 (12.1.3)
Installation on Linux(64 bit)

Author: Pan Tian(tianpan@gmail.com)
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Oracle Application R12 (12.1.3) Installation on Linux(64 bit) - Pan.Tian

Contents

Objective.........................................................................................................................................................................................1

Download & Unzip......................................................................................................................................................................2
Download....................................................................................................................................................................................2
Unzip...........................................................................................................................................................................................2
MD5 Checksums........................................................................................................................................................................2

Pre-Install Task.............................................................................................................................................................................4
Disk Space...................................................................................................................................................................................4
Specific Software Requirements .............................................................................................................................................4
RPM.............................................................................................................................................................................................4
JDK ..............................................................................................................................................................................................8
/etc/hosts...................................................................................................................................................................................8
/etc/sysconfig/network...........................................................................................................................................................8
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network.....................................................................................................8
/etc/sysctl.conf..........................................................................................................................................................................8
/etc/security/limits.conf.........................................................................................................................................................9
/etc/resolv.conf.......................................................................................................................................................................10
OS Library Patch for Oracle HTTP Server(on Oracle Linux 5, RHEL 5 and Oracle Linux 6 only)..............................10
Link to Motif library in Oracle Application Server 10.1.2 (on Oracle Linux 5 and RHEL 5 only)...............................10
OS User & Group.....................................................................................................................................................................10

Installation process.....................................................................................................................................................................11
Export Display..........................................................................................................................................................................11
./rapidwiz.................................................................................................................................................................................11
Add Env parameter to .bash_profile file..............................................................................................................................20
Default DB & Apps password...............................................................................................................................................21
R12 Directory Structure..........................................................................................................................................................22

EBS 12.1.3 upgrade......................................................................................................................................................................24
Download patch 9239090........................................................................................................................................................24
Documents................................................................................................................................................................................24
Installation process..................................................................................................................................................................25

Issues & Solutions......................................................................................................................................................................29
RW-50004: Error code received when running external process......................................................................................29
RW-50015: Error: - HTTP Listener is not responding.........................................................................................................29
Enter the location for the disk labeled: Oracle Applications Rapid Install – RDBMS Disk 1.......................................29
While adpatch EBS 12.1.3, encounter ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel.........................................30

Reference......................................................................................................................................................................................32
Metalink Notes.........................................................................................................................................................................32
Articles.......................................................................................................................................................................................32

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Objective
Step by Step instructions to install Oracle Applications R12(12.1.1) on Oracle
Enterprise Linux 5 are described in this article. This is a single node installation,
meaning that the database, all product directories and AD core directories, and
all servers (concurrent processing, forms, and Web) are installed on a single node
under one common APPL_TOP.

The database node and the Applications node can be installed on the same
machine. This type of installation is generally used for small systems or for
demonstration purposes. More commonly, the database node is installed on one
machine, and the Applications node on another machine. This provides
improved manageability, scalability, and performance.

This document will take Linux 64 bit platform as example. And my hardware
configuration is

Item Configuration

CPU 2 * Intel(R) Xeon(R) X5670 2.93GHz

RAM 6G

Disk Space /u01 300 GB

/u02 200 GB

/ 100 GB

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Download & Unzip
Download

Official Download Link https://edelivery.oracle.com/

For Oracle Internal User, you can also download from link:
https://sac.us.oracle.com/download/index.html

(NOTE: Choose proper platform and 32 bit/64 bit download files)

Download Tips:

Use the following command for Batch download, firstly collect all URLs required and put
it in a text file, say download.txt, one URL on a line

wget -i download.txt

(-i means Read URLs from file.)

Unzip

Create stage area - for downloaded installation pack, just unzip all zip files under stage
area directory StageR12, eg.

unzip B53824-01_1of4.zip -d /u02/ StageR12

unzip B53824-01_2of4.zip -d /u02/ StageR12

……

After unzip, File Path in StageR12 like following,

MD5 Checksums

Strongly suggest you perform MD5 check against the stage area.

The md5 checksums for the staged directory structure can be used to validate the
software integrity. Do this by running the md5sum program against the stage area using

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the oracle created checksum file. Note for can observe you have any problem with your
stage or not(Corrupted zip etc)

MD5 Checksums for R12.1.1 Rapid Install Media (Doc ID 802195.1)

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Pre-Install Task
Disk Space

File System Space Requirements for Standard Installation

Node Space Required

Applications node file system (includes 35 GB (50 GB on HP-UX Itanium)
OracleAS 10.1.2 Oracle Home, OracleAS
10.1.3 Oracle Home, COMMON_TOP,
APPL_TOP,and INST_TOP)

Database node file system (Fresh install) 55 GB

Database node file system (Vision Demo 208 GB (210 GB on HP-UX Itanium)
Database)

Stage area(unzipped files) 47 GB

The total space required for a standard system (not including the stage area) is 85 GB for
a fresh install with a production database, and 233 GB for a fresh install with a Vision
Demo database.

You can use below Unix command to check disk space

df –h

Specific Software Requirements

The following maintenance tools must be installed on machine, and their locations
specified both in the PATH of the account that runs Rapid Install and in the PATH of the
accounts that will own the database tier and application tier file systems.

Operating System Required Maintenance Tools

Linux x86 ar, gcc, g++, ld, ksh, make, X Display Server

Linux x86-64 ar, gcc, g++, ld, ksh, make, X Display Server

HP-UX Itanium ar, cc, aCC, make, X Display Server

ar, cc, aCC, make, X Display Server
HP-UX PA-RISC

IBM AIX on Power Systems (64-bit) ar, cc, aCC, make, X Display Server

ar, cc, ld, linkxlC, make, X Display Server
Microsoft Windows Server (32-bit)

Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit) ar, ld, make, X Display Server

RPM

Per Note: 761566.1

First, you should check your Linux Kernel, to determine your linux version, enter:

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uname –r

So my Linux is Linux 6, For Linux 6, Required Packages is

GA (6.0) or higher of Oracle Linux 6 is required

The following packages (or versions of packages) are not part of the OS distribution media and
must be downloaded separately (from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/compat-
oracle/files/Enterprise_Linux/) for Oracle Linux 6 and installed manually:

openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL6.i686 (32-bit)1

xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386 (32-bit)

The following packages must be installed from the Oracle Linux 6 distribution media:

binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.11

gcc-4.4.4-13.el16.x86_64

gcc-c++-4.4.4-13.el16.x86_64

glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.i686 (32-bit)

glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64

glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64

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glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6.i686 (32-bit)

glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64

libgcc-4.4.4-13.el6.i686

libgcc-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64

libstdc++-devel-4.4.4-13.el6.i686

libstdc++-devel-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64

libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.i686

libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64

make-3.81-19.el6.x86_64

gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.i686

gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64

libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.x86_64

libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.i686

libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64

libgomp-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64

sysstat-9.0.4-11.el6.x86_64

util-linux-ng-2.17.2-6.el6.x86_64

unzip-5.52-3.0.1.el5.x86_642

compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-144.el6.i686

compat-libstdc++33-3.2.3-69.el6.i686

Additionally, the following RPMs are required for the database tier running 11gR2 (users must
upgrade the bundled 11gR1 DB to 11gR2 either before or after installing 12.1) on the database
tier:

compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.el6.x86_64

elfutils-libelf-devel-0.148.1-el6.x86_64

kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64

libaio-devel-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64

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unixODBC-2.2.14-11.el6.i686

unixODBC-devel-2.2.14-11.el6.i686

unixODBC-2.2.14-11.el6.x86_64

unixODBC-devel-2.2.14-11.el6.x86_64

xorg-x11-utils-7.4-8

Note:

1: The openmotif package version must be 2.1.30 (for example, openmotif-2.3.3-1 is not
supported).

2: This unzip package (available from EL 5 distribution) is only required for purposes of
running Rapid Install to unzip the required EBS files as part of the installation.

Be sure you have above rmp on your system, you can use below command to check
whether RPM packages are installed or not

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}.%{RELEASE} (%{ARCH})n" | grep gcc

q = query

a = all

What’s the RPM:The Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is a toolset used to build and
manage software packages on UNIX systems. Distributed with the Red Hat Linux
distribution and its derivatives (CentOS is 100% compatible rebuild of the Rehat
Enterprise Linux).

The RPM files represent application or package that you can install on Linux system.

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JDK

JDK 6 is bundled with Oracle E-Business Suite version 12.1.1. You do NOT need to install
the JDK separately.

/etc/hosts

For Oracle Linux 4, 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5:

Verify that the /etc/hosts file is formatted as follows:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

[ip_address] [node_name].[domain_name] [node_name]

/etc/sysconfig/network

Verify that the /etc/sysconfig/network file is formatted as follows:

HOSTNAME=[node_name].[domain_name]

/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network

If the /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network file exists, remove it.

If you changed any files in the previous steps, restart the system.

/etc/sysctl.conf

Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file to configure your kernel settings. After editing the file, use
the "sysctl -p" command or restart the system to invoke the new settings.

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Note: If the current value for any parameter is higher than the value listed in the
following table, then do not change the value of that parameter.

The following table lists the kernel settings for Oracle Linux 4, 5 and 6, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4 and 5, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10:

1: set using the following entry in the /etc/sysctl.conf file: kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142

2: On the server running the EBS Database, this kernel parameter must be the lesser of
half the size of the physical memory (in bytes) and 4294967295

3: values recommended for the local port range may need to be adjusted according to the
specific needs of the user's environment in order to avoid port conflicts.

/etc/security/limits.conf

Open the /etc/security/limits.conf file and change the existing values for "hard" and
"soft" parameters as follows. Restart the system after making changes.

Note: If the current value for any parameter is higher than the value listed in this
document, then do not change the value of that parameter.

* hard nofile 65535

* soft nofile 4096

* hard nproc 16384

* soft nproc 2047

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/etc/resolv.conf

Add or update the following entries to these minimum settings in the /etc/resolv.conf file
on each server node:

options attempts:5

options timeout:15

OS Library Patch for Oracle HTTP Server(on Oracle Linux 5, RHEL 5 and Oracle Linux 6 only)

Download and apply the patch 6078836 from My Oracle Support to fix an issue with the
Oracle HTTP Server (missing libdb.so.2) bundled with the E-Business Suite technology
stack.

Note that this patch (which includes a required operating system library) must be
applied before installing Oracle E-Business Suite.

Without this patch, after installation, HTTP Server can not start.

Link to Motif library in Oracle Application Server 10.1.2 (on Oracle Linux 5 and RHEL 5 only)

Perform the following command (as root on your system) to update a required link to a
Motif library prior to relinking or patching the 10.1.2 Application Server Oracle Home:

# unlink /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6

# ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6.1 /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6

OS User & Group

Generally for PROD instance, we need create two OS user for installation, one user is
used to manage DB, the other is used to manage Apps.

Since our instance is a TEST instance, so for simple, we just create one user to manage DB
and Apps, Here we use ‘oracle’ as user, use ‘oinstall’ as group.

# groupadd oinstall -g 2000

# useradd -g oinstall -u 2000 oracle

# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/oracle

chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file.

-R, operate on files and directories recursively

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Installation process
Export Display

To ensure we have a graphical installation process, we can export server to our local
linux which have X window system. If your server have installed X window, then you
can ignore this step.

(ptian) ptian- env | grep ALTDISPLAY

ALTDISPLAY=rws60004sgd.us.oracle.com:50

(First, in our local linux, Check our local linux’s host and port)

(ptian) ptian- ssh admin@bej301441.cn.oracle.com

admin@bej301441.cn.oracle.com's password:

Last login: Thu May 31 21:32:49 2012 from 10.182.114.9

(SSH to server which we intend to install EBS)

[admin@bej301441 ~]$ export DISPLAY=rws60004sgd.us.oracle.com:50

./rapidwiz

If you intend to use standard installation mode, you need login as root user.

[root@bej301441 rapidwiz]#cd /u02/StageR12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz

[root@bej301441 rapidwiz]# ./rapidwiz

Rapid Install Wizard is validating your file system......

4 dvd labels found

Rapid Install Wizard will now launch the Java Interface.....

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Default Oracle EBS Ports

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Port numbers can be modified during installation or may be automatically incremented
by x during installation where x is a number 1 to 100 (typical less than 10). Port number
ranges are often a grouping of 3, 4, 5, or 6 contiguous ports in the specified range.

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Login Test: http://<host_name>.<domain_name>:port/OA_HTML/AppsLogin

Add Env parameter to .bash_profile file

.bash_profile is a bash shell that is started when login.

For DB user, Modify /.bash_profile, add your DB env file path into it, eg.

. /u01/oracle/mc3yd213/db/tech_st/11.1.0/mc3yd213_bej301441.env

For Apps user, Modify /.bash_profile, add your Apps env file path into it, eg.

. /u01/oracle/mc3yd213/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSmc3yd213_bej301441.env

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Default DB & Apps password

Database:

SYS/change_on_install

SYSTEM/manager

Application Schema passwords:

APPS Schema: APPS/APPS

GWYUID User: APPLSYSPUB/PUB

Guest User: GUEST/ORACLE

Application Users:

SYSADMIN/SYSADMIN

MFG/WELCOME

OPERATIONS/WELCOME

SERVICES/WELCOME

MRC/WELCOME

HRMS/WELCOME

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R12 Directory Structure

===For Applmgr User===

$APPL_TOP

R12:<APPS_BASE>/apps/apps_st/appl

NOTE: Oracle Applicaitons product files, including $INV_TOP, $AU_TOP....

$COMMON_TOP

R12:<APPS_BASE>/apps/apps_st/comn(Common files such as Java&HTML)

NOTE: $JAVA_TOP is under $COMMON_TOP

$ORACLE_HOME

R12:<APPS_BASE>/apps/tech_st/10.1.2

===For Oracle User===

$ORACLE_HOME

R12:<ORACLE_BASE>/db/tech_st/10.2.0

NOTE:Oracle Home for 10g RDBMS

ORADATA

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R12:<ORACLE_BASE>/db/apps_st/data

NOTE:Oracle 10g database files

===INSTANCE HOME===

INST_TOP

R12:<APPS_BASE>/inst/apps/<context_name>

NOTE:Configuration,logs,Certificates.

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EBS 12.1.3 upgrade
Download patch 9239090

Download 12.1.3 patch:

https://updates.oracle.com/download/9239090.html

NOTE: the linux 32-bit and the 64-bit patch are one and the same. 32-bit Linux patches
are applicable for 64-bit Linux OS as well.

Documents

Official Documents

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme (Doc ID 1080973.1)

Database Preparation Guidelines for an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Upgrade
[Doc ID 761570.1]

Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86
[Document 761564.1]

External references

http://my.opera.com/jafferappsdba/blog/2011/12/17/upgrade-from-ebs-12-1-1-
to-12-1-3

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http://oracleminds.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/how-did-i-upgrade-our-oracle-ebs-
from-r12-1-1-to-12-1-3/

2. Installation packs

* Patch 9239089

* Patch 9239090

* Patch 9239095

* Patch 9817770

* Patch 9966055

Installation process

1.Set Application Environment

source /d01/oracle/VIS/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSVIS_adc6180205.env

2. stop all application process.

/d01/oracle/VIS/inst/apps/VIS_adc6180205/admin/scripts/adstpall.sh apps/apps

3. set environment to RDBMS oracle_home.

source /d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/VIS_adc6180205.env

4.Shutdown Database as following

sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL>shutdown immediate;

5.Stop Database Listener

lsnrctl stop VIS

6. edit the init parameter file in the database(Using 11gR1 follow doc.761570.1)

/d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/dbs/initVIS.ora

vi initVIS.ora

add (_disable_fast_validate=TRUE).

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7. set pga and sga size in init parameter file (initVIS.ora file)

pga_aggregate_target=2G

Note:

(If errorlike below:

ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 822904 bytes (pga heap, kco
buffer)

ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [dbgtfdFileWrite()+48]

set the _pga_max_size initialization parameter to a larger value as follows:
_pga_max_size=104857600

and restart your database.)

8.start Database Listener

lsnrctl start VIS

9. restart the database.

sqlplus / as sysdba

sql> startup pfile='/d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/dbs/initVIS.ora'

10. Use AutoPatch to apply R12.AD.B.DELTA.3 Patch 9239089

Pre Install Steps as per Patch readmefile & Doc.1077769.1

(i)create a dir on $ORACLE_HOME/appustil/admin

/d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/appsutil/admin

(ii)Copy adgrants.sql from this patch directory to $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/admin

cp /u01/12.1.3/9239089/admin/adgrants.sql
/d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/appsutil/admin/adgrants.sql

(iii) Set the database environment

/d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/VIS_adc6180205.env

(iv)logon to sqlplus and run adgrants.sql with apps schema password as below

sqlplus /nolog

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sql> connect as sysdba

sql> @/u01/oracle/ORCL/db/tech_st/11.1.0/appsutil/admin/adgrants.sql apps

11. Disable maintanance mode using adadmin utility

12. set application environment.

Run Patch 9239089 using adpatch

*u9239089.drv

(Check Log file in
/u01/oracle/ORCL/apps/apps_st/appl/admin/ORCL/log/u9239089_12122011.log)

13. Compile APPS schema

Run adadmin > Compile/Reload Applications Database Entities menu >Compile APPS
schema.

*Choose "No" at the following prompt:Run Invoker Rights processing in incremental
mode [No]

14.Apply patch 9239090 using adpatch

*u9239090.drv

(When adrelink error chose "Yes" to continue)

15. Post Step (There is no any pre or post install steps)

Apply Patches *Patch 9817770

*Patch 9966055

16.Remove _disable_fast_validate=TRUE parameter from initVIS.ora file

17.Disable Maintanence mode

18.Run Autocnfig both database and application tier

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2. Query patches applied in table

ad_applied_patches

ad_bugs

3. License applications

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Issues & Solutions
RW-50004: Error code received when running external process.

Error Message:” RW-50010: Error: - script has returned an error: 1

RW-50004: Error code received when running external process. Check log file for details.

Running Database Install Driver for mc2yd213 instance”

When installation progress go to 33%, then raise RW-50004 Error, Generally it is due to
OS user/group you used may not have correct priority to installation folder.

You can check details from logs.

RW-50015: Error: - HTTP Listener is not responding.

Error Message:” RW-50015: Error: - HTTP Listener is not responding. The service might not
have started on the port yet. Please check the service and use the retry button.”

It means you did not apply patch 6078836.

Download and apply the patch 6078836 from My Oracle Support to fix an issue with the
Oracle HTTP Server (missing libdb.so.2) bundled with the E-Business Suite technology
stack.

Enter the location for the disk labeled: Oracle Applications Rapid Install – RDBMS Disk 1

While installation, it pop us a window which ask to select install disk.

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Error Message:

“Select the root directory of the required Rapid Install Disk

Enter the location for the disk labled:

Oracle Applications Rapid Install - RDBMS Disk 1”

This is very big mistake, log will tell you reason

Disk platform missmatch.

required platform: LINUX_X86-64

Disks for platform: Linux

While adpatch EBS 12.1.3, encounter ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

From adpatch,”

STATUS_MESSAGE

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Running UTL_RECOMP.RECOMP_PARALLEL...

declare

*

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

ERROR:

ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE “

Solution: Edit the init parameter file in the database(Using 11gR1 follow doc.761570.1)，

/d01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0/dbs/initVIS.ora

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Add

_disable_logging=false

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Reference
Metalink Notes

Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86
[ID 761564.1]

Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux
x86-64 [ID 761566.1]

MD5 Checksums for R12.1.1 Rapid Install Media (Doc ID 802195.1)

How to locate the log files and troubleshoot Rapid Install for Release 12.0.x and 12.1.x
(Doc ID 452120.1)

Articles

Oracle Applications Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install R12(12.1.1)

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e12842.pdf

Oracle Applications (12.1.1) Installation on RHEL 5

http://heliosguneserol.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/oracle-applications-12-1-1-
installation-on-rhel-5/

Oracle Applications(Apps) R12 (12.1.1) Installation on Linux

http://www.freeoraclehelp.com/2011/11/oracle-applicationsapps-r12-1211.html

Appsdba.info R12 Install

http://www.appsdba.info/docs/oracle_apps/Installation/R12/snir12-ln.pdf

E-Business Suite 12.1.1 Standard Installation on Linux OEL 5.3

http://gerardnico.com/wiki/ebs/installation

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