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Installation Requirements for Linux

Operating System: Linux only.

This topic is part of a roadmap. See Oracle BI Installation Requirements.

For successful Oracle BI Server operations under Linux operating systems, check the following factors:

• If you are installing the Basic option, JDK 1.5.0 must be installed before Oracle BI.
• If you are installing the Advanced option, Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.1.0 or greater must be installed before Oracle BI.
• For running Oracle BI Server and Oracle BI Presentation Services, set the following parameters:
  • File handle limit: at least 10240

    For example: ulimit -n 10240

  • File-descriptor: at least 10240
    • To discover the file-descriptor settings, run the command ulimit -a
    • Or set file-descriptor using the command ulimit -n 10240

      NOTE:  This requires root or administrator access.

• For running Oracle BI Publisher, make sure to allocate enough memory.

  See the topic Memory Allocation for OC4J.

• Use Version 3.4.3 with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) C++ runtime version 3.4.3 or higher libraries installed before installing Oracle Business Intelligence.
  • The library name must be libstdc++.so.6.

    The package name can be queried using the following command:

  rpm -q libstdc++ -l

  The output must include libstdc++.so.6

• For Red Hat: Run X server locally on desktop with the display from Linux machine exported to that desktop.
• For Red Hat: The version of Java at /usr/lib/java must be removed or renamed before installing Oracle BI, in order for the charting server to be installed successfully.

  NOTE:  This requires root or administrator access.