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Re: Geeky Project Part 9: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:11:22 -0000

I'm not very proficient with Linux, especially with Red Hat variant. So, I'd have to dig to find how to update rpms from yum. Plus, I'm not sure what is available via that public yum; I know some OEL support and updates require a CSI. So, this method was my first choice because it seemed easiest.

Re: Geeky Project Part 9: Create a WebCenter VM

twitter-5374732 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:52:17 -0000

Understandable, if you feel that it's quick. I just find that the first thing I do with every new virtual Oracle system these days, is to add the public YUM repository (two steps or so), and when it's there, it really beats hunting for rpms elsewhere. Kudos to (the relevant department of) Oracle for making this available :)

Re: Geeky Project Part 9: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:22:22 -0000

No reason really. Mounting the isos was what I thought of first, and so I went with it for time's sake. I'm also not really sure what the yum repository includes, but I was fairly certain the package I needed would be on the OEL media.

Re: Geeky Project Part 9: Create a WebCenter VM

EspenBG — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:17:42 -0000

Good job :) But why are you still mounting the isos to get rpms; didn't you set up Oracle public YUM repositories in part two? Sorry if I missed something here.

Re: The Oracle People iPhone App is Here

Aravinda_L — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:12:38 -0000

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Re: The Oracle People iPhone App is Here

Samir Estefan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:53:47 -0000

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Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jpiwowar — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:36:17 -0000

Okay, cool, glad it's useful. Apparently I'd passed my "comment length self-consciousness" threshold, and felt a need to add that last line. :-) Good luck w/ the next steps. :)

Re: Eight Cell Phones in Ten Years Part 1

stephanieslocum — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:26:31 -0000

it's pretty amazing the rapid rate at which mobile phones become smarter and more sophisticated. we could just wonder what tomorrow's phones can do!

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:09:48 -0000

That wasn't "way more than I needed to know". That's all good stuff for my "stuff I figured someone smarter than me would know" department. Awesome, thanks again.

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jpiwowar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:19:26 -0000

Regarding making environment variables stick: since you're going to have multiple ORACLE_HOMEs on this server (one for the RDBMS and one for WC at a minimum, I recommend putting the commands to set up the oracle environment in a short shell script. For example:
zathras:~ jpiwowar$ cat 11gdb.env
#!/bin/bash
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_BASE}/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
export PATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
zathras:~ jpiwowar$ . 11gdb.env
zathras:~ jpiwowar$ echo $ORACLE_HOME
/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1

Invoking the .env script with the leading '. ' will make sure that the environment variables are exported to your current session, and not just set for the (very short) life of the script's execution.

You might also want to set up a similar script that sets up the WC environment variables, since you'll be dealing with a separate ORACLE_HOME and PATH at least, and maybe some other things specific to the WC environment.

One drawback to this method is that environment variables like PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH can get "polluted" with entries from both ORACLE_HOMEs if you're switching back and forth a lot between environments. I blogged a solution to that a while back, if it's relevant.

BTW, you leave the CLI as soon as you type dbca, and you're back to a GUI.

Here ends the latest missive from the Dept of "Way more than I needed to know, thanks." ;-)

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:15:07 -0000

Yeah, the 11g vs. 10g problem is exactly what I was thinking might prevent this. Also, I'm not sure how big the repository is for WC, but the ECM repository alone could get pretty big.

Plus, I wanted to do this with the latest shiny objects available :)

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jpiwowar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:53:53 -0000

I think it depends on WC's requirements. XE is an early version of 10gR2 (10.2.0.1, maybe), and unpatchable. So if the minimum requirements for WC's repository are 10.2.0.4, for example, XE is a non-starter. Furthermore, XE caps out at 4G of data, so if the WC repository is bigger than that, or will quickly get bigger than that you're out of luck. It may also be that WC will still *work* against 10.2.0.1, even if it's not certified, which is fine for a sandbox, so then you just have the 4G data restriction to worry about.

Anyhoo, if neither of those restrictions apply, and 11g RDBMS continues to be problematic, XE might be the way to go. Nothing beats installing an entire database, software and data files, from an RPM. :)

Re: Chrome Reaches Beta for Mac, Linux

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:47:02 -0000

Interesting. I love keyboard shortcuts like that, another reason I really like the Omnibox. Generally speaking, Chromium has been moving more quickly than Chrome, mostly b/c they release nightly builds. Also, someone at TechCrunch wrote a nightly build script for Chromium (Mac), if you want to keep it updated.

Re: Chrome Reaches Beta for Mac, Linux

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:44:05 -0000

Heh, I hear you. I finally got all my Macs up to 10.6 a few months ago, and boy was I worried my wife's MB would cough up a hairball going from 10.4 to 10.5 to 10.6. Luckily, it went smoothly.

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:42:16 -0000

Yeah, again, what I should have done is remember that I planned to do this at some point before heading into the WC install. I need to work on this stuff earlier in the day :)

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:08 -0000

Great, I'll give dbca a shot when I get back into it, and yes, Time Machine has a version with a pristine 11g install. Those environment variables don't stick, do they? I'll need to dig up how to apply them to oracle each time.

I knew someone would mention the CLI way to do all this, which I considered but didn't have the patience to try. My tiredness wasn't helping me think straight, and I was looking for easy answers.

Anyway, appreciate the assist.

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:35:30 -0000

Will Fusion Middleware 11gR1 run on XE? I guess I assumed it was tuned for 11g versions. I should be fine after stepping away overnight. I was in the weeds a bit too far and tired, which made it worse. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:31:31 -0000

Sure, good advice. Through Time Machine, I have snapshots, maybe not as frequent as I could get through VBox. Screen recording makes a lot of sense.

Re: U Can Has Beta Invites

jkuramot — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:29:13 -0000

Sorry dude, I ran out of those long ago. Hit them up for invites directly. They're pretty responsive.

Re: U Can Has Beta Invites

gooses — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:51:51 -0000

I would like to have a twitterfone invite if you have one available, plz.

Thanks,
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Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

Chris — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:42:59 -0000

Hey Jake.

There are two things I do when installing software I've never used before.

1: Take frequent snapshots. If you screw up getting back to a "known good" state is just three clicks away.
2: Screen record the entire process. It takes lots of disk space, but makes figuring out the settings I used really easy.

Chris

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

JordanOAtOracle — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:13:46 -0000

Hi Jake, Just curious, and I have to admit I have not read all 5 previous parts, but why not simplify the equation and use Oracle Database Express Edition (Universal for proper charset support)? http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/produ...
The RCU will complain, ignore the compatibility error and it works fine. You will need to bump up the processes > 200, but RCU will let you know this too. I am running an 11.1.1.2.0 SOA Stack on 10g Express without any problems. I actually limited it's memory consumption to 384K total and have no performance issues for the vm-based demos/local testing that I need to do. HTHs, Jordan.

Re: Chrome Reaches Beta for Mac, Linux

uvox — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:25:52 -0000

I'll get to it eventually. One of the joys of trying to work with 4 laptops simultaneously...

Re: Geeky Project Part 6: Create a WebCenter VM

jpiwowar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:11:17 -0000

Also FWIW, unless I'm reading this completely incorrectly, at this point you can't have all of the information that the RCU needs, because there isn't a database there for it to configure. So no SID, no user w/ sysdba privs, etc. So don't feel badly for not writing that stuff down as you went along. :)