Oracle® Database

Installation Guide

12c Release 1 (12.1) for Linux

E41491-12

August 2015

Oracle Database Installation Guide, 12c Release 1 (12.1) for Linux

E41491-12

Primary Author: Prakash Jashnani.

Contributing Author: Douglas Williams

Contributor: The Oracle Database 12c documentation is dedicated to Mark Townsend, who was an inspiration to all who worked on this release.

Contributors: Saar Maoz, David Austin, Subhranshu Banerjee, Aparna Kamath, Janelle Simmons, Mark Bauer, Gurumurthy Ramamurthy, Robert Chang, Jonathan Creighton, Sudip Datta, Jonathan Creighton, John McHugh, Allan Graves, Sundar Matpadi, Thirumaleshwara Hasandka, Sagar Jadhav, Joel Kallman, George Kotsovolos, Gopal Mulagund, Tammy Bednar, Benoit Dageville, Simon Law, Richard Long, Shekhar Vaggu, Rolly Lv, Padmanabhan Manavazhi, Sreejith Minnanghat, Krishna Mohan, Rajendra Pingte, Kevin Jernigan, Bryn Llewellyn, Hanlin Qian, Roy Swonger, Ranjith Kundapur, Aneesh Khandelwal , Barb Lundhild, Barbara Glover, Ravi Thammaiah, Binoy Sukumaran, Hema Ramamurthy, Prasad Bagal, Martin Widjaja, Ajesh Viswambharan, Eric Belden, Sivakumar Yarlagadda, Preethi Vallam, Rudregowda Mallegowda , Satish Panchumarthy, Matthew McKerley, Trivikrama Samudrala, Apparsamy Perumal, Akshay Shah, Sue Lee, Sangeeth Kumar, James Spiller, Kamal Tbeileh, Rich Long, Mark Fuller, Sunil Ravindrachar, Sergiusz Wolicki, Eugene Karichkin, Joseph Francis, Srinivas Poovala, David Schreiner, Neha Avasthy, Dipak Saggi, Sudheendra Sampath, Mohammed Shahnawaz Quadri, Shachi Sanklecha, Zakia Zerhouni, Aravind Jayaraaman, Jai Krishnani, Mughees Minhas, Jim Erickson, Darcy Christensen, Ara Shakian, Marcus Fallen, Clara Jaeckel, Namrata Bhakthavatsalam, Emily Murphy, Terri Winters, Kevin Flood, Gavin Bowe, Christopher Jones, Mark Richwine, Mohit Singhal, Gurudas Pai, Rajesh Prasad, Peter Wahl, Kiran Chamala, Dharma Sirnapalli, Ashmita Bose, Asad Hasan.

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