What prerequisites package is needed for Oracle 11g + 12c on the same OL7 server?

Question

I need to install 3 Oracle homes on the same Oracle Linux 7 server, but it's not clear to me what prerequisites I need to install before proceeding.

What I'm planning to set up, is a two-standalone-instance (11.2 + 12.2) server and an Oracle Grid infrastructure for taking advantage of the benefits of the Oracle Restart.

As a prerequisite, on OL7 we need to run:

• yum install oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall -y (in case on Oracle 11.2)
• yum install oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall -y (in case on Oracle 12.2)

Considering I'm planning to install the following Oracle homes

• 12.2 Grid infrastructure
• 12.2 Database
• 11.2 Database

should I run both the aforementioned yum commands, or only 12cR2 prerequisite is actually required?

Answer 1

The problem with oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall is that it does not install gcc. For a base release, it is fine, but upon installing a PSU/RU, opatch fails because of that.

[root@o61 ~]# yum deplist oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall-1.0-14.el6.x86_64 | grep dependency | grep gcc
  dependency: gcc-c++
  dependency: gcc
  dependency: libgcc
[root@o61 ~]#

[root@o71 ~]# yum deplist oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall.x86_64 | grep dependency | grep gcc
  dependency: libgcc
[root@o71 ~]#

It is not needed to install both packages. I would just do this (as I usually do):

yum install oracle-database-server-12cR2-preinstall gcc gcc-c++ -y