E Business Suite 12.1.1 or higher Certified with Linux 6 (64 Bit)

Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Certified on Oracle Linux 6 (x86-64)

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.1.1 and higher) is now certified on 64-bit Oracle Linux 6 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).

New installations of the E-Business Suite R12 on this OS require version 12.1.1 or higher. Cloning of existing 12.1 Linux environments to this new OS is also certified using the standard Rapid Clone process. There are specific requirements to upgrade technology components such as the Oracle Database (to 11.2.0.3) and Fusion Middleware as necessary for use on Oracle Linux 6. These and other requirements are noted in the Installation and Upgrade Notes (IUN) below.

Certification for other Linux distros still underway

Certifications of Release 12 with 32-bit Oracle Linux 6, 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and the Red Hat default kernel are in progress.

References

• Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86-64 (My Oracle Support Document 761566.1)
• Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone (My Oracle Support Document 406982.1)
• Interoperability Notes Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0) (My Oracle Support Document 1058763.1)
• Oracle Linux website

Thanks to John Abraham announcement on http://blogs.oracle.com

Main Features:

Kernel Requirement:

GA (6.0) or higher of Oracle Linux 6 is required

The following packages (or versions of packages) are not part of the OS distribution media and must be downloaded separately (from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/compat-oracle/files/Enterprise_Linux/) for Oracle Linux 6 and installed manually:

• openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL6.i686 (32-bit)¹
• xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386 (32-bit)

The following packages must be installed from the Oracle Linux 6 distribution media:

• binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.11
• gcc-4.4.4-13.el16.x86_64
• gcc-c++-4.4.4-13.el16.x86_64
• glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.i686 (32-bit)
• glibc-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64
• glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64
• glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6.i686 (32-bit)
• glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64
• libgcc-4.4.4-13.el6.i686
• libgcc-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64
• libstdc++-devel-4.4.4-13.el6.i686
• libstdc++-devel-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64
• libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.i686
• libstdc++-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64
• make-3.81-19.el6.x86_64
• gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.i686
• gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64
• libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686
• libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.x86_64
• libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.i686
• libaio-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64
• libgomp-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64
• sysstat-9.0.4-11.el6.x86_64
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-6.el6.x86_64
• unzip-5.52-3.0.1.el5.x86_64²
• compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-144.el6.i686
• compat-libstdc++33-3.2.3-69.el6.i686

Additionally, the following RPMs are required for the database tier running 11gR2 (users must upgrade the bundled 11gR1 DB to 11gR2 either before or after installing 12.1) on the database tier:

• compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.el6.x86_64
• elfutils-libelf-devel-0.148.1-el6.x86_64
• kernel-uek-headers-2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64
• libaio-devel-0.3.107-10.el6.x86_64
• unixODBC-2.2.14-11.el6.i686
• unixODBC-devel-2.2.14-11.el6.i686
• unixODBC-2.2.14-11.el6.x86_64
• unixODBC-devel-2.2.14-11.el6.x86_64
• xorg-x11-utils-7.4-8

Note:

¹: The openmotif package version must be 2.1.30 (for example, openmotif-2.3.3-1 is not supported).
²: This unzip package (available from EL 5 distribution) is only required for purposes of running Rapid Install to unzip the required EBS files as part of the installation.

for rest of the instructions, please follow Oracle Metalink Note No. 761566.1