Installing Oracle Database 19c (19.22) on Oracle Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Oracle recommends that you install Oracle Database 19c Release 19.22 or later on Oracle Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

To install Oracle Database 19c on Oracle Linux 9 and Red Hat Linux 9, download the 19.3 Oracle Database software binaries from the Oracle website, and then apply the 19.22 release updates (RUs) during the installation process.

Installation Process:

During the Oracle Database and Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation process, run the runInstaller and gridSetup.sh commands with the -applyRU and -applyOneOffs options to install the latest 19.22 RU for Oracle Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Oracle Grid Infrastructure (19.22):

  1. Unzip the 19.3.0.0.0 Oracle Grid Infrastructure gold image.
  2. Copy the OPatch utility version 12.2.0.1.40 or later from My Oracle Support patch 6880880 by selecting the 19.0.0.0.0 release.
  3. Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure by running gridSetup.sh with applyRU to create and install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19.22 by running the following command:

    From the 19.3 GI home, run

    $ gridSetup.sh -applyRU <19.22 GIRU Patch 35940989 location>

Oracle Real Application Clusters (19.22):

  1. Unzip the 19.3.0.0.0 Oracle Database gold image.
  2. Copy the OPatch utility version 12.2.0.1.40 or later from My Oracle Support patch 6880880 by selecting the 19.0.0.0.0 release.
  3. Install Oracle Real Applications Cluster (Oracle RAC) software with $ 19.3 on-prem_db_ image/runInstaller -applyRU <19.22 GIRU Patch 35940989 location>
  4. Run Oracle Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to create the Oracle Real Applications Cluster (Oracle RAC).
Single-instance Oracle Database (19.22):
  1. Set the environment variable CV_ASSUME_DISTID to OL7 ($export CV_ASSUME_DISTID=OL7).
  2. Unzip the 19.3.0.0.0 Oracle Database gold image.
  3. Copy the OPatch utility version 12.2.0.1.40 or later from My Oracle Support patch 6880880 by selecting the 19.0.0.0.0 release.
  4. Install Single-instance Oracle Database with $ 19.3 on-prem_db_ image/runInstaller -applyRU <19.22 DBRU Patch 35943157 location>

Oracle Restart with Single-instance Oracle Database (19.22):

Oracle Restart (19.22)
  1. Unzip the 19.3.0.0.0 Oracle Grid Infrastructure gold image.
  2. Copy the OPatch utility version 12.2.0.1.40 or later from My Oracle Support patch 6880880 by selecting the 19.0.0.0.0 release.
  3. Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure with $ 19.3 on-prem_grid_ image/gridSetup.sh applyRU <19.22 GIRU Patch 35940989 location>
Single-instance Oracle Database on Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) with Oracle Restart (19.22)
  1. Unzip the 19.3.0.0.0 Oracle Database gold image.
  2. Copy the OPatch utility version 12.2.0.1.40 or later from My Oracle Support patch 6880880 by selecting the 19.0.0.0.0 release.
  3. Install Single-instance Oracle Database with $ 19.3 on-prem_db_ image/runInstaller applyRU <19.22 GIRU Patch 35940989 location>