Installation - Practical Oracle Database Appliance - page 41

■ to download the end User Bundle or any other major patches needed for the oracle Database appliance,
you might want to follow the instructions in note ID 888888.1.

Note

Database Installation
Once you have the End User Bundle copied over to the Oracle Database Appliance, you need to install it on the
Appliance by unpacking it. Unpacking consists of using the oakcli unpack command. Listing 3-7 shows the End User
Bundle for release 2.7 being unzipped in the temp directory.

Listing 3-7. Using oakcli unpack

[root@oak1 tmp]# /opt/oracle/oak/bin/oakcli unpack -package /tmp/p12978712_27000_Linux-x86-64.zip
Unpacking takes a while, pls wait....

Once the End User Bundle is unzipped into the temporary directory, you need to install the Oracle products
using a GUI interface. In order to do this, you need to start a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server to interact with
the Oracle Database Appliance.

VNC Configuration and Connection
VNC is a graphical desktop-sharing technology that allows you to use an X11 desktop and execute programs locally on
the server, while only the screen output is sent to the VNC client on your PC or MAC. Before you can install the End
User Bundle, you need to configure the VNC server with an initial password. To set the initial VNC password, run the
vncserver command and set your password. The command will also give you your VNC session number. Listing 3-8
provides an example of what you should see when setting the password for the VNC server.

Listing 3-8. Setting the VNC Server Password and Port

[root@oak1 tmp]# vncserver

You will require a password to access your desktops.

Password:
Verify:
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "oak1:1" in "add" command

New 'oak1:1 (root)' desktop is oak1:1

Creating default startup script /root/.vnc/xstartup
Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /root/.vnc/oak1:1.log

Once the password is set and the session number identified, you can connect to the system using the VNC
client. For the remote host, you use the IP address and the session identified when starting the VNC server. Figure 3-4
illustrates connecting to the Oracle Database Appliance using a VNC client.