How to Install Oracle EBS R12 in PC (Windows)

June 23rd, 2010 faisal 2 comments

Install Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on MS Windows

In this article i will explain how to install Oracle EBS R12 in MS Windows. I am going to explain two methods 1) EBS R12 on Windows 2003 Server 2) EBS R12 on Windows XP. I will strongly recommend to install R12 on Windows 2003 server. It is more reliable and will provide you maximum functionality.

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on Windows 2003 Server.

My Hardware & Software Specifications: Booting and Running speed is excellent by using following hardware. - Intel Pentium Core 2 DUO, CPU 2.0 GHz - 4 GB of RAM - 250 GB Hard Drive - Windows 2003 Server with Service Pack 2 - R12 Stage Down load from http://edelivery.oracle.com - MKS Tool Kit licenced download from http://webstore.mkssoftware.com - Visual C++ 8.0 licenced (Included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) Installation Steps: 1) Install Windows XP Professional with SP2

Make sure you have installed Network driver successfully. 2) Set Computer Name .

- Right click on My Computer > Properties > Computer Name > Change - Set Computer Name to r12 (you can other give any name)

3) Set the domain - Click on More - Set a Primary DNS Suffix of this Computer to oracle.com (myoreacle.com)

you can choose any other name

4) Add a new entry in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as follows:

replace localhost with r12.oracle.com 5) From the command prompt, make sure you can do the following: C:\> ping r12.oracle.com 6) Install Visual C++ 8.0 (Which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) in C:\VS8 Directory name should not contain spaces 7) Download MKS toolkit and install in c:\mksnt\ 8- Copy link.exe , cl.exe from c:\vs8\vs\bin to c:\mksnt\mksnt\ 9) Copy which.exe from c:\mksnt\mksnt\ to c:\vs8\lib\ 10) Copy GNUMAKE.EXE to c:\windows\system32 11) Restart Computer 12) Set Up the Stage Area: Stage Area (c:\stage12) requires a 32 GB hard disk space. Make sure stage12 name should not contain spaces and should have read/write permissions. Extract the zip files which have been downloaded from (http://edelivery.oracle.com). Nothing special to do since the extracted files will create the stage area directory structure by itself. You should see the following structure under C:\stage12 once you are done with the files extraction: Make sure there should not be spaces stage directory name. - startCD - oraAppDB - oraApps - oraAS - oraDB 13) Start the installation: Run rapidwiz from following path C:\stage12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz> RapidWiz.cmd For VC++ and mks I have provided the following paths: s_MSDEVdir=C:\VS8\VC s_MKSdir=C:\mksnt\mksnt 14) Follow the wizard and sit back and relax until installation completed. 15) After installation complete open the browser and write following URL r12.oracle.com:8000

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on Windows XP

My Hardware & Software Specifications: Booting and Running speed is excellent by using following hardware. - Intel Pentium Core 2 DUO, CPU 2.0 GHz - 4 GB of RAM - 250 GB Hard Drive - Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 - R12 Stage Down load from http://edelivery.oracle.com - CYGWIN Free download from http://www.cygwin.com - Visual C++ 8.0 Lisenced (Included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) Installation Steps: 1) Install Windows XP Professional with SP2 Make sure you have installed Network driver successfully. 2) Set Computer Name . - Right click on My Computer > Properties > Computer Name > Change - Set Computer Name to r12 (you can other give any name) 3) Set the domain - Click on More - Set a Primary DNS Suffix of this Computer to oracle.com (myoreacle.com)

you can choose any other name

4) Install Microsoft Loopback adapter and define an IP address 200.200.200.01 For more information on how to do this, please refer to How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839013 5) Add a new entry in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as follows: 200.200.200.01 r12.oracle.com 6) From the command prompt, make sure you can do the following: C:\> ping 200.200.200.01 C:\> ping r12 C:\> ping r12.oracle.com 7) Install Visual C++ 8.0 (Which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) in C:\VS8 Directory name should not contain spaces

8 Download Cygwin and install the required packages: - Create a Cygwin directory (C:\cygwin) Make sure not to install Cygwin in a directory that contains spaces. - Download the Cygwin Software (http://www.cygwin.com) - Run Setup.exe and choose Download without Installing - Select the following packages: Archive Default, plus manually select the zip package Base Default, plus manually select: ash, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep, sed, tar and which Devel Default, plus manually select binutils, gcc, gcc-core, gcc-g++, make and mktemp Doc Default, plus manually select cygwin-doc and man Editors Default, plus manually select vim Interpreters Default, plus manually select gawk Shells Default, plus manually select ash and tcsh Utils Default, plus manually select cygutils and file - Once the download is complete, run Setup.exe again and choose Install from Local Directory - Specify the directory where you want to install Cygwin (C:\cygwin) and DOS as the Default Text File Type 9) GNUMake is not required when using Cygwin since it comes as a part of the Cygwin. C:\cygwin\bin>copy gawk.exe awk.exe C:\cygwin\bin>copy grep.exe egrep.exe C:\cygwin\bin>copy make.exe gnumake.exe C:\cygwin\bin>copy gcc.exe cc.exe 10) Add C:\cygwin\bin to the system path. 11) Set Up the Stage Area: Stage Area (C:\Stage12) requires a 32 GB hard disk space. Extract the zip files which have been downloaded from (http://edelivery.oracle.com). Nothing special to do since the extracted files will create the stage area directory structure by itself. You should see the following structure under C:\Stage12 once you are done with the files extraction: Make sure there should not be spaces stage directory name. - startCD - oraAppDB - oraApps - oraAS - oraDB 13) Start the installation: Run rapidwiz from following path C:\Stage12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz> RapidWiz.cmd For VC++ and Cygwin I have provided the following paths:

s_MSDEVdir=C:\VS8\VC s_MKSdir=C:\cygwin\bin 14) Follow the wizard and sit back and relax until installation completed. 15) After installation complete open the browser and write following URL r12.oracle.com:8000 I will appreciate your comments and feedback.