I am in the process of getting Shibboleth service providers setup on machines in our web environment. The newest, and one of the most urgent service provider that I have to setup is running on a Oracle Application Server. I wanted to get this setup and running in a local test environment so I can show the admins what needs to be done. I decided to get my test system setup under a Virtual Machine in Parallels on my Mac OSX running Centos 5 I had a few hurdles in getting the software installed, but this is what I did.

1. Downloaded the Centos 5 installation image from here .


2. Downloaded the Oracle Application Server Deployment Edition from here .


3. Created a Parallels Virtual machine and ran the Centos 5 DVD iso image to setup to machine. (You will need a gui environment to run the Oracle Universal Installer)


4. Ftp’d the Oracle Application Server CIPO file to the Centos 5 VM.


5. Ran this command to expand the cipo file cipo -idv < <name of oracle file>


6. Commented out the line under [Certified Versions] in the oraparam.ini file located in the install directory to make it so dependency checking is turned off.


7. Installed the following files. (I found this in the install instructions here , but I just used yum instead of getting the files from the disk)
   

   
   From CentOS 5.1 - [CD #1]
   
   mkdir -p /media/cdrom
   mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
   cd /media/cdrom/CentOS
   rpm –Uvh binutils-2.*
   rpm –Uvh glibc-2*
   rpm –Uvh glibc-common-2.*
   rpm –Uvh libaio-0*
   rpm –Uvh libgcc-4.*
   rpm –Uvh libstdc++-4.*
   rpm –Uvh make-3*
   rpm –Uvh setarch-2*
   cd /
   eject
   From CentOS 5.1 - [CD #2]
   mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
   cd /media/cdrom/CentOS
   rpm –Uvh glibc-devel-2.*
   rpm –Uvh gcc-4*
   rpm –Uvh gcc-c++-4.*
   rpm –Uvh libstdc++-devel-4.*
   cd /
   eject
   From CentOS 5.1 - [CD #3]
   mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
   cd /media/cdrom/CentOS
   rpm –Uvh compat-db-4*
   rpm –Uvh compat-gcc-34-3*
   rpm –Uvh compat-gcc-34-c++-3*
   rpm –Uvh compat-libstdc++-33-3*
   rpm –Uvh libaio-devel-0.*
   rpm –Uvh libXp-1*
   rpm –Uvh openmotif-2*
   rpm –Uvh sysstat-7.*
   cd /
   eject
   

   
   


8. Next I installed the following rpm becuase I was getting a libdb.so.2 library not found exception. I found the instructions to fix it here .
   
   
   
   1. I did a Google search on “db1-1.85-8.i386” and found man pages that had a link to the rpm I needed.
   
   
   2. I downloaded the rpm, within the centos gui, and it asked me to install the rpm.
   
   
   3. I installed the rpm, and the library was now available.
   
   
   
   
9. Now all I had to do was run the installation of ./runInstallation and everything worked great for me.