Installing Oracle DB 19.0.0
Make Sure you fulfill the requirements:
OS: Oracle Linux 7/8
Run the following command
| sudo yum update |
Install the required packages
| sudo yum install -y oracle-database-preinstall-19c |
change oracle user password
| sudo passwd oracle |
create directories required for oracle
| sudo mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1 sudo mkdir -p /u01/app/oraInventory sudo chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01 sudo chmod -R 775 /u01 |
Edit /etc/security/limits.conf
| oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536 oracle soft nproc 16384 oracle hard nproc 16384 oracle soft stack 10240 oracle hard stack 32768 oracle hard memlock 134217728 oracle soft memlock 134217728 |
Download Oracle DB zip file db_home on the Website
switch user to Oracle
| su – oracle |
Unzip the db_home.zip file to db_home directory created before
| unzip -q LINUX.X64_193000_db_home.zip -d /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/ |
go to the dbhome_1 directory and run the installer script. (either use X11 forwarding or use oracle linux with GUI when installing )
| cd /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/ ./runInstaller |
after running the installer( GUI) export oracle_home and add it to path
| export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1 export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin |
run the following command
| source ~/.bashrc |
to create database, run
| dbca |
There will be GUI found after running dbca, choose create database.

