Extract the Oracle Grid Infrastructure Files

From your client connection to the Podman container as the grid user, download, extract Oracle Grid Infrastructure binaries.

For example:

1. Ensure that the Grid user has read-write-execute privileges in the software stage home in the Oracle RAC node 1 container (in this example, /software/stage).

2. Confirm that you have downloaded and staged the required files for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database Release 26ai (23.26), as well as the patch files. You must be able to see the Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) software staged under the path /software/stage inside the Oracle RAC Node 1 container.

   $ ls -l * 
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2405533953 Feb 2 04:56 LINUX.X64_260000_db_home.zip
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1089452395 Feb 2 04:56 LINUX.X64_260000_grid_home.zip

3. As the Grid user, unzip the binaries to the 26ai Oracle Grid Infrastructure Grid home. For example:

   $ cd /u01/app/26ai/grid
   $ unzip -q /software/stage/LINUX.X64_260000_grid_home.zip