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Installation of Oracle Database 12cR1 on Oracle Solaris 11.2 (X86-64Bit) failed with error " network/lib/ins_net_client.mk " though all pre-requisites checks was successful. Installation failed on the following screen: Error log content from the Installation logfile: INFO: rm -f ntcontab.* INFO: (if [ "assemble" = "compile" ] ; then \ /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/bin/gennttab > ntcontab.c ;\ cc -c ntcontab.c ;\ rm -f /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/lib/ntcontab.o ;\ mv ntcontab.o /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/lib/ ;\ /usr/ccs/bin/ar rv /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/lib/libn12.a /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/lib/ntcontab.o ; fi) INFO: (if [ "assemble" = "assemble" ] ; then \ /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/bin/gennttab > ntcontab.s ;\ /usr/ccs/bin/as -m64 -Kpic -o ntcontab.o ntcontab.s ;\ rm -f /u01/oradb/oracle/product/12.1.0/db...

This is my first article  on Oracle database 12c. I have installed oracle database 12cR1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.7 - 64 bit virtual mahcine with 4GB RAM, 6GB SWAP and 15 GB of HDD space. I do not find much difference in Installation steps in oracle 12c when compare it with 11g. There are indeed certain new options and some more per-requisite OS packages. You can download the software from OTN or EDELIVERY  website. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html Hardware Requirements: > Single Core CPU > 3 GB RAM > 8 GB of Disk Space (SW + database) OS per-requisites: > Create OS group and users > Create required directories with appropriate privileges > Configure Kernel parameters > Install required OS packages > Configure proper Display [root@linux1 ~]#groupadd dba [root@linux1 ~]#useradd -g ora12c [root@linux1 ~]# passwd ora12c Changing password for user ora12c. New UNIX passwor...