Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 on Oracle Linux 8 / Redhat 8

Posted by Dirk Nachbar on Monday, August 24, 2020
Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 is officially supported and certified with Oracle Linux 8 and Redhat 8. But in case you want to install the Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.4.0 you will see that you are running into an error while performing the prerequirement check.


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Starting check : CertifiedVersions
Expected result: One of oracle-7, redhat-7, redhat-6, oracle-6, SuSE-11, SuSE-12, SuSE-15
Actual Result: redhat-8.2
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
CertifiedVersions Check: Success.

Starting check : Packages
Checking for binutils-2.23.52.0.1; found binutils-2.30-73.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for compat-libcap1-1.10; Not found.	Failed
Checking for compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-x86_64; Not found.	Failed
Checking for libgcc-4.8.2-x86_64; found libgcc-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libstdc++-4.8.2-x86_64; found libstdc++-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-x86_64; found libstdc++-devel-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for sysstat-10.1.5; found sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for gcc-4.8.2; found gcc-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for gcc-c++-4.8.2; found gcc-c++-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for ksh-...; found ksh-20120801-254.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for make-3.82; found make-1:4.2.1-10.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for glibc-2.17-x86_64; found glibc-2.28-101.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for glibc-devel-2.17-x86_64; found glibc-devel-2.28-101.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libaio-0.3.109-x86_64; found libaio-0.3.112-1.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libaio-devel-0.3.109-x86_64; found libaio-devel-0.3.112-1.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for motif-2.3.4; found motif-2.3.4-16.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed

As you can see from above, the Oracle Installer is failing because of the missing packages compat-libcap1-1.10 and compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-x86_64.
These 2 packages can not be found in the Oracle Linux 8 and Redhat 8 distrubition, they have been removed since Release 8.

To resolve this problem, you will need to download the Patch 31190532 from My Oracle Support, transfer the patch to your target server, extract the patch somewhere and modify your Oracle Installer startup command as follows:

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./fmw_12.2.1.4.0_fr_linux64.bin -prereqConfigLoc <Path_to_the_patch>/31190532/prereq_metadata/oracle.as.install.fr.prerequisite/prereq

and now the Oracle Installer will successfully pass the prerequirement checks:

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Starting check : CertifiedVersions
Expected result: One of oracle-8, oracle-7, redhat-8, redhat-7, redhat-6, oracle-6, SuSE-11, SuSE-12, SuSE-15
Actual Result: redhat-8.2
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
CertifiedVersions Check: Success.

Starting check : Packages
Checking for binutils-2.23.52.0.1; found binutils-2.30-73.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libcap-2.25-9; found libcap-2.26-3.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libstdc++-8.2.1-3.5.0.1.el8-x86_64; found libstdc++-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libgcc-4.8.2-x86_64; found libgcc-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-x86_64; found libstdc++-devel-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for sysstat-10.1.5; found sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for gcc-4.8.2; found gcc-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for gcc-c++-4.8.2; found gcc-c++-8.3.1-5.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for ksh-...; found ksh-20120801-254.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for make-3.82; found make-1:4.2.1-10.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for glibc-2.17-x86_64; found glibc-2.28-101.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for glibc-devel-2.17-x86_64; found glibc-devel-2.28-101.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libaio-0.3.109-x86_64; found libaio-0.3.112-1.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for libaio-devel-0.3.109-x86_64; found libaio-devel-0.3.112-1.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Checking for motif-2.3.4; found motif-2.3.4-16.el8-x86_64.	Passed
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
Packages Check: Success.