10gr2 installation failed on rhel 5

Clause: Oracle10gR2 (10.2) was released before RHEL5, so the base installation media does not make provision for installing on RHEL5.

When trying to install the Oracle10gR2 (10.2) software on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 5 (RHEL5) server, the prerequisite checks fail.


Solution:

run the runInstaller with ignorePrereqs check

$ ./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs

For more info: check metalink note: [ID 456634.1]