How to install Oracle 11g on linux without X?

Question

I tried to install Oracle client from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/112010-linx8664soft-100572.html but some genius makes installer

Answer 1

With a silent mode installation:

Use silent mode to:

• Complete an unattended installation, which you might schedule using operating system utilities such as cron
• Complete several similar installations on multiple systems without user interaction
• Install the software on a system that does not have X Window System software installed on it

I seem to recall you still have to have $DISPLAY set, but you don't need an X-Windows client running.

The client installation guide goes into a lot more detail. (That's the 11gR2 version; the 12cR1 version is similar.

Answer 2

Here's an example of how you might run 12c+ dbca from the command line. The parameters are all pretty much self-explanatory

dbca -silent -createDatabase  -templateName General_Purpose.dbc  -gdbname MY_CDB -sid MY_CDB -responseFile NO_VALUE \
 -characterSet AL32UTF8  -sysPassword MyPassword123  -systemPassword MyPassword123  -createAsContainerDatabase true \
 -numberOfPDBs 1 -pdbName MY_PDB -pdbAdminPassword MyPassword123 -databaseType MULTIPURPOSE \
 -automaticMemoryManagement false -totalMemory 2000 -storageType FS  -datafileDestination "//oradata/" \
 -redoLogFileSize 200 -emConfiguration NONE -ignorePreReqs