1. To begin, make sure that all the packages currently installed on your RHEL/CentOS 7 system are updated to their latest versions. # yum update -y 2. Next, installed all the required dependencies for the RDBMS, along with the zip and unzip packages. # yum install -y binutils.x86_64 compat-libcap1.x86_64 gcc.x86_64 gcc-c++.x86_64 glibc.i686 glibc.x86_64 glibc-devel.i686 glibc-devel.x86_64 ksh compat-libstdc++-33 libaio.i686 libaio.x86_64 libaio-devel.i686 libaio-devel.x86_64 libgcc.i686 libgcc.x86_64 libstdc++.i686 libstdc++.x86_64 libstdc++-devel.i686 libstdc++-devel.x86_64 libXi.i686 libXi.x86_64 libXtst.i686 libXtst.x86_64 make.x86_64 sysstat.x86_64 zip unzip 3. Create the user account and groups for Oracle. # groupadd oinstall # groupadd dba # useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle # passwd oracle How can I install X Windows on CentOS 7? sudo yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop" # install lots of stuff sudo yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" ... sudo systemctl enable graphical.target sudo systemctl start graphical.target sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target sudo systemctl get-default graphical.target sudo systemctl reboot 4. Add the following kernel parameters to /etc/sysctl.conf file. fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576 fs.file-max = 6815744 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 8329226240 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500 net.core.rmem_default = 262144 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 1048586 and apply them: # sysctl -p # sysctl -a 5. Set the limits for oracle in /etc/security/limits.conf file. oracle soft nproc 2047 oracle hard nproc 16384 oracle soft nofile 1024 oracle hard nofile 65536 6. Before proceeding, create other directories that will be used during the actual installation, and assign the necessary permissions. # mkdir /u01 /u02 # chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01 /u02 # chmod -R 775 /u01 /u02 # chmod g+s /u01 /u02 7. Open a GUI session in the RHEL/CentOS 7 server and launch the installation script. # ./runInstaller