Installing Oracle Developer 6i release 2 on Fedora 10(d2k6irelease2.tar)

Steps to install forms6i in Linux.

1)Download the following files.

a) d2k6irelease2.tar

http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/forms/d2k6irelease2.tar

b) openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm
and openmotif-devel-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/metrolink/openmotif/2.1.30-4/openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/metrolink/openmotif/2.1.30-4/openmotif-devel-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm


2)Create an user “oradev” and group “dba”

#groupadd dba
#useradd oradev -g dba
#psswd oradev
(Enter the passwork you wish to give here)


3) Copy d2k6irelease2.tar file to “/home/oradev/” and extract it.
#cp -r /home/youruser/Download/d2k6irelease2.tar /home/oradev/
#tar -xvf d2k6irelease2.tar

4)If /etc/oratab already exist, please rename it.
#mv /etc/oratab /etc/oratab.bck

5) Check whether these libraries exist in /usr/X11R6/lib
# locate libX11.so
# locate libX11.so
# locate libXext.so
# locate libXmu.so
# locate libXp.so
# locate libXpm.so
# locate libXt.so
# locate libXtst.so
#locate libXm.a
# locate libXt.a
# locate libX11.a

If these libraries are not install or installed in another location, please install it and create and symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXmu.so /usr/X11R6/lib/

6)change the directory to /home/oradev/orainst/, the installation should start from this folder. Execute the following command to start installation.
#cd /home/oradev/orainst/
#./orainst

7)This will show a GUI for installing Forms6i

a) Select the installation method:Default Install

b)Select the Installer activity: Install, Upgrade, or De-Install Software

c) Select the Installer option: Install New Product - Do Not Create DB Objects

d) Environment Variables :Confirm, change, or enter values for the environment variables
set ORACLE_BASE:as /home/oradev/app and ORACLE_HOME=/home/oradev/app/oracle/product/8.0.5

e) Software Asset Manager : Oracle Forms Server and Forms and Oracle Reports Server and Reports.
To Select these 2 option, keep the curser to the position Oracle Forms Server and Forms and press enter, move down the curser to Oracle Reports Server and Reports and press enter. After doing this press letter 'r' and then press letter 'i'.

f) Please enter the directory where the X-Windows libraries : /usr/X11R6/lib/

g)Please enter the directory where the MOTIF library (libXm.a) is located: /usr/X11R6/lib/

h) GUI choice : check all items:

i)In the Component Selection (for Forms), select all the items except the first:

[] Form Server for Web deployment

[X] Motif Bitmapped Interface

[X] Designer and Generater Executables

[X] Character Mode Interface

Click on OK.



j)In the Component Selection (for Reports), select all the items except the first:

[] Reports Multitier Server for Web deployment

[X] Motif Bitmapped Interface

[X] Report Designer and Converter Executables

[X] Character Mode Interface

Click on OK.


8)After installation correct the tnsnames.ora file.

EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.1.246)(PORT = 1521))
)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVICE_NAME = PLSExtProc)
)
)



orcl=
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = server)(PORT = 1521))
)
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVICE_NAME = orcl)
)
)

9)Set environment parameters correctly. Add these entries to .bash_profile file.

export PATH=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/oradev/bin:/home/oradev/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin

export ORACLE_HOME=/home/oradev/app/oracle/product/8.0.5

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ORACLE_HOME}/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:
/home/oradev/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/network/jre11/lib/linux/native_threads:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/lib/i386

export ORACLE_TERM=vt220

10) To open the file from linux PC, please browse the binary path f60runm. Now onwards you can open the fmx file without any issue