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Requirements

This chapter provides information about the hardware and software items required for the installation of the Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle9iAS Client, and the online documentation. The topics include:

• Hardware Requirements

• Software Requirements

• Certified Software

• Oracle9iAS Client Requirements

• Online Documentation Requirements

Hardware Requirements

The following table contains the hardware requirements for Oracle9i Application Server.

Hardware Items	Requirements
CPU	A SPARC Processor
Memory	128 MB
Disk Space	Minimal: 625 MB Standard Edition: 1.40 GB Enterprise Edition: 4.10 GB
TMP or Swap Space	800 MB

Make note of the following:

• The disk space must be available on a single disk. Oracle9i Application Server does not support spanning the installation over multiple disks.

• Origin database must have minimum free disk space for the following:
  • System Tablespace: 1 GB

  • User Tablespace: 400 MB

For Standard Edition Only: You will need an additional 430 MB disk space on your Oracle9i Application Server machine to install the Oracle Enterprise Java Engine database. The database files do not have to be installed on the same disk as the Oracle9i Application Server Oracle home.

Software Requirements

The following table contains the software requirements for Oracle9i Application Server. The patches can be downloaded from http://sunsolve.sun.com. For the latest information, refer to OracleMetaLink at:

http://metalink.oracle.com

Software Items

Version

Operating System

Solaris 2.6 Linker patch: 107733-08 or higher /usr/lib/libthread.so.1 patch: 105568-18 or higher libaio, libc, watchmalloc patch: 105210-32 or higher X Input & Output Method patch: 106040-14 or higher Linker patch: 105490-07 or higher OpenWindows 3.6: Xsun patch: 105633-48 or higher1 Fixes the Chinese TrueType fonts: 106409-01 or higher2 SunOS 5.6: ssJDK1.2.1_03 fails with fatal errors in ISO8859-01 Locales: 108091-03 or higher3 CDE 1.2: libDtSvc patch (recommended): 105669-10 or higher Motif 1.2.7: Runtime library patch (recommended): 105284-37 or higher SunOS 5.6: Kernel update patch (recommended): 105181-23 or higher Solaris 2.7 Libthread patch: 106980-13 or higher Kernal update patch: 106541-12 or higher4 /kernal/fs/sockfs patch: 109104-04 or higher4 /usr/lib/fs/fsck patch: 107544-03 or higher4 Motif Runtime library patch: 107081-22 or higher X Input & Output Method patch: 107636-05 or higher OpenWindows 3.6.1 Xsun patch: 108376-12 or higher1 Solaris 2.8: Additional patches not required at this time.

1 This patch is required for asian locales. 2 This patch is required to display Traditional Chinese characters in Swing applications. 3 This patch (108091-03 or higher) is required for any locale which uses the ISO8859-1 or ISO8859-15 character encoding. 4 This patch is a pre-requisite for 106980-13.

Certified Software

Installation of the Oracle9i Application Server requires an Oracle database. A complete list of certified software, including databases, for Oracle9i Application Server can be found at OracleMetaLink:

http://metalink.oracle.com

Oracle9iAS Client Requirements

The following table contains the requirements for the installation of Oracle9iAS Client.

See Also: Appendix B, "Installing Oracle9i Application Server Administrative and Development Client CD-ROM"

Hardware Items	Required
Operating System	Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, with Service Pack 5.0 or higher Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1. Some components might malfunction if Service Pack 1 is not available.
CPU	Pentium 266
Memory	At least 64 MB RAM for running both the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer and Web Integration Developer; at least 32 MB RAM for running the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer.
Disk Space	40 MB for running both the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer and Web Integration Developer; at least 20 MB for running the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer.
JDK 1.2.2	The client system requires JDK 1.2.2. You can install JDK 1.2.2 for Windows NT from the client CD-ROM. Make the JDK directory the first entry in the system environment path.

Online Documentation Requirements

The following table contains the tools and disk space requirements for the installation of the Oracle9i Application Server online documentation. The documentation library can be installed on a separate machine.

See Also: Appendix F, "Installing Documentation Library"

Requirement	Items
Online Readers	Requires any one of the following: HTML Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher PDF Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher Acrobat Reader+Search 3.0 or higher Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or higher PDFViewer Web browser plug-in 1.0 or higher
Disk Space	260 MB