Installing Oracle on Windows 7 RC1
Windows 7 Release Candidate was publically released on May 5, 2009. This should be the final release before it goes live later this year. I downloaded it, installed it in a VM inside of VirtualBox and tried to install Oracle on it.
There is no Oracle release for Windows 7, so instead I grabbed the Windows 2008 one. The install is pretty straight forward. The only "gotcha" is that if you go to the command prompt, you need to run it as the Administrator, so that all of the Oracle commands will work (lsnrctl, dbca, netca etc…) Really there is not that much to it as it was pretty seemless. So, if you download Windows 7, then you can also download Oracle 11g and start playing with it today!
If you run into any issues, let me know and I’ll see if I can help you out.
ravi said,
May 25, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Hi
While I am installing oracle 11g on windows 7RC (32 bit) using universal installer
It is showing error like jre is not there
Xabi said,
June 4, 2009 @ 2:40 am
Hi!
Wich version of Windows 7 did you use 64 or 32 bit, and which version of oracle did you install 10g or 11g, and finally did you install de database or the client?
I’m trying to get this to work with the client and it crashes on the OS check.
thanks!
Thomas Roach said,
June 4, 2009 @ 4:14 am
Windows 7 – 32 bit. I downloaded the 11g 32 bit software for Windows 2008 Server. Hope this helps.
Ravi, were you able to work around the issue?
Xabi, which were you trying to install in which you received the error?
Gerrit said,
June 8, 2009 @ 11:32 am
Hi,
Please can you tell me how to install the client. I have downloaded the Windows 2008 client and it looks if it has installed sucessfull. But when I look for the TNSNAMES.ORA file I can not find it.
Greeting Gerrit
Marco Haak said,
June 9, 2009 @ 12:55 am
Hi,
i tried to install Oracle 10.2 (Patchset 10.2.0.4) on Windows 7 RC 32-Bit.
I get an Library Error: Could not load Oracle Interface: OCI.DLL (Windows OS Error 126)
Can you help me?
Greeting
Marco
David said,
June 27, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
Hey there, I downloaded the Oracle 11g build for Windows x64… I’m running Windows 7 RC and when I attempt to run the setup, the process shows up and starts churning up to 50% of CPU, but I never see any dialogs, nor am I presented with the actual opportunity to install anything.
Ayan said,
July 10, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
Hi,
i just tried to install Oracle 11g.. on Win 7 RC1(7100)..it showed some errors n could not configure the network settings.. n i cant start sql plus too.. i canged my password but cud not.. it says protocol error.. can u help me..
syed said,
August 5, 2009 @ 9:06 pm
hi,
I have tried to install oracle 10g R2 on windows 7. Everything works fine untill it comes on DBCA part. here it given TNS 12560 Permission denied error. I tried to run it form administrator user but same error. need help over this
Manuel said,
August 10, 2009 @ 6:10 am
Hi Thomas,
I tried to install the Oracle 11g Client 64Bit on my Windows 7 RTM 64bit.
However, I can not get past the system check by the oracle installer. It says something like: “Your os version is not certified” and the installation does not continue. What I tried:
run with -ignoreSysPrereqs
no luck. can not get past the system check (I dont know why it stops there, since that seems to be the idea of the flag)
run in Windows Vista (SP2) compatibility mode
The installer starts with a dos screen (extraction probably) and then nothing more happens. The installer gui never shows up.
Do you have any idea what i can do now?
Bypass the system check?
Pretend another os version to the installer?
Many thanks for any hint…
rgds Manuel
Carlos Urtubia said,
August 12, 2009 @ 4:01 am
I tried to run the installer for win64 11gR1 client on my Win7 64 bits and is not working, same problem with the version.
Compatibility mode is not working.
Now I’m trying to download the one for Windows 2008 :
https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/realms/otnLogin.jsp?remoteIp=99.242.18.103&globalId=&redirectUrl=http%3a%2f%2fdownload-llnw.oracle.com%3a80%2fotn%2fnt%2foracle11g%2f111070%2f11107_w2k8_x64_production_client.zip
If work I will update my comments
Carlos
Carlos Urtubia said,
August 12, 2009 @ 4:35 am
Trying to install the W2k8 Client on my W7 64 bits said :
——————————————————————————–
Checking operating system requirements …
Expected result: One of 5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0
Actual Result: 6.1
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
Problem: Oracle Database 11g is not certified on the current operating system.
Recommendation: Make sure you are installing the software on the correct platform.
========================================================
Regards,
C
vipul soni said,
August 13, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
Well in any way method anybody adopts , oracle 10gr2 seems to not budge on a machine with windows 7 x64 or x32 edition. i have tried all the methods and what i have found is that the installation fails the moment it proceeds from the first screen of setting the oracle instance user and password.
so guys maybe we have to wait for a windows 7 x64 edition oracle flavor……
Dba_Z said,
August 15, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
It seems that an upgrade from vista with Oracle Installed works on 64bit plattform… Not tried but an Oracle ACE did it!
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/oracle-guide/oracle-11g-64bit-on-windows-7-ultimate-64bit-29240
Win. said,
August 17, 2009 @ 12:29 am
Hi everyone, I got the following error message.
Is there anyone know about that ?
Trying to install the W2k8 Client on my W7 64 bits said :
——————————————————————————–
Checking operating system requirements …
Expected result: One of 5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0
Actual Result: 6.1
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Failed <<<<
Problem: Oracle Database 11g is not certified on the current operating system.
Recommendation: Make sure you are installing the software on the correct platform.
========================================================
Regards,
Win.
Thomas Roach said,
August 19, 2009 @ 11:50 am
Try starting the installer like this.
runInstaller -ignoresysprereqs
Stephanie Sims said,
August 20, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
Assuming that this is a non-production system.
You should just be able to check the box against the OS check so that it says user verified and then select next.
I have successfully installed both Oracle DB 64-bit and Oracle client on Windows 7 using this method.
Ulf said,
August 26, 2009 @ 11:47 am
Hi there,
look at http://msutic.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-instal-oracle-client-11g-on.html
There is a solution for this problem.
Mahesh Goyal said,
October 9, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
You can click on the checkbox and it will turn to “User verified” and continue with the installation, successfully, I did, and it works…..
Shital said,
October 26, 2009 @ 10:34 pm
I’ve Windows 7 home basic. i’m trying to install oracle 10g what steps i need to follow …if 10g is not compatible then which oracle version should i try??
Yanping Hu said,
November 2, 2009 @ 6:03 am
As Stephanie Sims said, I just passed system verification by checking the box against the OS check.
Thanks.
: )
Aarti said,
November 3, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
Tried installing Oracle 11e (Windows 2008 one) on windows 7 but got stuck at Oracle Net Configuration assistant..Its not going through.
Please suggest how to resolve this error and move on to complete the installation successfully.
Thanks !
Tyler Muth said,
November 11, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
Solution! (at least for me). Windows 7 RC, build 7100 32-bit, Oracle DB 11.1.0.7 (for Windows Server 2008). I hit the error mentioned by others on the Net Configuration assistant. The logs weren’t much help but when I tried to run netca.bat by hand later, I noticed that the path it gave in the error was truncated. The issue? There was a space in the path of my Oracle Home: c:\program files\oracle\… I de-installed, then re-installed in c:\oracle\product\whatever, making sure there were NO SPACES in the path. After that, everything went perfect.
Good Luck,
Tyler
viki said,
November 22, 2009 @ 7:53 am
can anyone please tell me-
what is the system hardware requirements for oracle 11g and oracle 12g.
Victor said,
December 8, 2009 @ 7:50 am
Greetings.
I setup Oracle 11.1.0.6 software only on W7 64 then setup path 10.1.0.7
Any problems was not.
Before creating a DB I has decided to setup Oracle innteligent agent 10.2.0.4 has told installator -ignoreSysPrereqs there was prompt Oinstall then installation has broken.
Who can that prompt as to setup innteligent agent on W7 64?
Eugene said,
December 9, 2009 @ 9:51 am
Guys,
Trying to figure out which Oracle to install on Windows 7. I also have an option to get laptop with Windows XP.
Any suggestions? I would really appreciate any comments.
Robert said,
December 9, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
Hi. Been trying to install Oracle 11.1.06 on Windows 7. In the installer, after giving the passwords for SYS etc, it went 90% then
just seemed to hang for an hour. Anybody have experience like this? Thanks
Victor said,
December 10, 2009 @ 2:20 am
Above I wrote about a problem with oinstal.
Installation after a prompt conclusion broke.
The problem has dared after installation patch java 64 for W7 from a server Sun
Victor said,
December 10, 2009 @ 2:23 am
Hi
Above I wrote about a problem with oinstal to setup Oracle innteligent agent
Installation after a prompt conclusion broke.
The problem has OK after installation patch java 64 for W7 from a server Sun
Rafiq said,
December 19, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit – HP quad core 8GB
Oracle 11g 11.1.6 64 bit
I installed Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit today and then downloaded 11gr1 (11.1.6 64 bit). While running OUI this was failed on OS check and nework warnings. I just checked those boxes and hit retry and it was passed based on user verification. The all other installation part and db creation went fine. However I have not used dbca to create another database.
I hope it will help.
Regards
Rafiq
Yuriy said,
December 25, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
I have established Oracle 11g R1 Client on Windows 7.
Has been surprised by considerable delay of inquiries to DB Oracle.
Inquiries are carried out in 100, 1000 times more slowly.
SAVISH said,
January 6, 2010 @ 3:47 am
hi,
i want to install oracle HRMS in my laptop but i have windows 7,can i installl oracle in this
dnyanesh said,
January 16, 2010 @ 10:39 pm
whether win 7 supports oracle 9i
rakesh said,
January 26, 2010 @ 5:15 am
hi this is rakesh, i am un able to install oracle 11g on my os windows7 64-bit home premium
it iss displaying an error that operating system error
Iwuoha Victor said,
February 6, 2010 @ 12:20 am
I can not install oracle in window 7. error message TNS 12560 Permission denied error.
Pls assisst
sourav paul said,
February 8, 2010 @ 8:55 am
Hello,Tomas i want to install oracle 9i on windows 7.But it shows a error that jrew.exe has stopped working and the installation progress stopped. Can you tell me which version of oracle is compatible with windows 7 and how can i get out of this problem.I have installed 32bit windows 7 on my computer.
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:05 pm
If you get a permission denied error, then please run these commands in admin mode, otherwise it won’t work.
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:06 pm
9i on Windows 7? Try the Windows XP mode.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
That should help you.
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:06 pm
Rakesh, what error are you getting?
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
SAVISH, HRMS? You mean EBusiness Suite? If so, you will want to get a VM (VirtualBox is free) and allocate over 300GB of space for the install, but you can do it. I would run it on Linux inside of a VM which can then run anywhere, including Windows 7.
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:08 pm
Yuriy, do you have any firewalls enabled? I have no delay. Could be some other issue (i.e. networking issue) if you are far away from the server.
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
Robert, no issue here, but did you run dbca as the admin user?
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Eugene, Windows 2008 and Windows 7 have a similar internat structure and so Oracle built for Windows 2008 should work with Windows 7 if you run things in admin mode because Windows 7 is locked down pretty good.
Thomas Roach said,
February 8, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
viki, I would have at least 512MB of ram or more… thats the DB. If you want to run EBiz Suite, that is totally something else. Please tell us what you are trying to run?
Davy said,
February 9, 2010 @ 3:31 am
Greetings,
I would like to have solution as fast as possible about installing Oracle 9i in windows 7 home premium 64-bit what happened is that:
1) windows 7 home premium has 2 folders called: Program Files & Program Files (x86)
2)Oracle files was installed in the 2nd one.
3)when the setup reach the step: Configuration Tools, it tooks more than an hour and nothing happened…
4)I closed the installation windows, retart my computer, and try to opent the net manager, but nothing opened
If it is possible to give me any solution or work around for this error in the comming few days, I`ll be v.thankfull.
Regards,
Brian Sullivan said,
February 10, 2010 @ 9:13 am
This tells the whole story of what I have been doing the last week to 10 days. Many of you are much more courageous than I.
I am by no means wealthy. Obviously, right?– I am a student. My point is, I can not afford a situation where a great effort
turns into a disabled computer. I’d just got this thing during the recent holidays.
I look forward to a time when I load this page, and all the chat resembles,” thanks again for your help, my oracle 11g release2
is working great.”
hem said,
February 15, 2010 @ 5:21 am
please help me ,when i am installing oracle8i on windows7 it says jrew.exe file is not found .pleasse tell me the solution.
Thomas Roach said,
March 1, 2010 @ 8:06 am
I don’t think Oracle 8i is supported on Windows 7, but there is a Windows XP mode. Try that and see if it works for you.
echo9 said,
March 14, 2010 @ 7:02 am
is this helpful?
http://msutic.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-instal-oracle-client-11g-on.html
Debi Johnson said,
April 13, 2010 @ 9:17 am
I have downloaded Oracle10g for my class and it states Operating System 5.1,5.2 actual 6.1 ERROR<<<. Please tell me how I can make this run on Windows 7 laptop Toshiba 64 Bit. I am a student and need this desperately. Thank you kindly
Debi Johnson
abdul said,
April 15, 2010 @ 1:11 am
how i install oracle9i or 10g or 11g in windows7 32bit OS.whether it install in windows7 or not
abdul said,
April 15, 2010 @ 1:13 am
how i install oracle9i or 10g or 11g in windows 7 32 bit OS.whether it support or not
venkat reddy said,
April 17, 2010 @ 9:19 am
while m installing oracle11g in windows7 64-bit it is showing some error what should i do
Thomas Roach said,
April 19, 2010 @ 5:02 am
When I initially posted this, there was no Oracle for Windows 7 client. Since then, (in the last few weeks), Oracle has released the 11gR2 client for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. These will work with Windows 7. I encourage you to get those instead of the 2008 one.
Dinesh said,
April 20, 2010 @ 7:36 am
How do I install Oragle 10g on Window 7 Home edition
Tarun said,
May 27, 2010 @ 8:13 pm
Hello,
Could you please guide me how to install 10g or 11g on Windows 7 64-bit operating system ??
I would be very much thankful to you, if you could help me out.
Thank you
Dami L said,
June 23, 2010 @ 2:23 am
I see a lot of questions…and very few answers. How – does – one – get – Oracle – 10g – working – on – Windows – 7??
Thanks
Rich said,
June 28, 2010 @ 8:38 am
There are various ways to install Oracle components onto Windows 7. The easiest way to get Oracle Client and Database installed on Windows 7 64-bit is to download Oracle 10G 10.2.0.4 from here;
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10204_winx64_vista_win2k8.html
1. Extract the archive onto your local drive (avoid C:\temp, tmp, or C:\Windows dir’s)
2. Open a CMD prompt and navigte to the root of the newly extracted DIR from step 1.
3. setup.exe –ignoreSysPrereqs
4. Step 3 launches the OUI and performs pre-installation checks. It will fail with incompatible O/S and (if installing on your desktop/laptop) a DHCP scope warning. Tick-box the tests that have failed ensuring that it is only the above errors that have been flaged.
5. Navigate through the OUI splash screens; – choose a Personal Edition install (for obvious licensing reasons) and choose to create a general purpose database
6. The OUI will eventually start installing the required software and then proceed to create an Oracle instance and database. This can take a few mintues or more, depending on the spec of your hardware.
7. The Listener config is taken care of as part of the installation. The install will also create tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files to include the local database. Make a note of the Oracle Enterprise Manager URL as well.
8. Exit the installer once it has completed the config and installation.
9. To check or change the config of the Listener, etc, navigate to the BIN directory using a cmd prompt (default is C:\Oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\BIN) and launch from there;
– LSNRCTL STATUS — check if LISTENER proces is listening out for connections to you new database
– NETCA — Oracle Net config etc
10. If you want to creat new users and tablespaces in your new database, use the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console (the URL from step 7) OR run some scripts (experienced users only). You may get a invalid certificate error when browsing the URL but you can navigate past that. Accept the License; the browse should then jump you to the Enterprise Manager home page. LOG-ON as sys (as sysdba).
11. Choose the “Administration” tab. You will want to create a TABLESPACE first , then afterwards a USER.
Good luck! Apologies – I won’t be able to respond to questions, but hopefully the above is enough info to get you started.
Sam said,
July 1, 2010 @ 9:31 am
@Rich,
Following those instructions still produce an error at the “Product Specific Prerequisite Checks” Screen. I made sure to type the parameter exactly as listed in the directions (case).
umunnah paschal said,
July 14, 2010 @ 7:07 am
pls,am having problem installing oracle 10g data base on my windows 7 64-bit laptop.how do i do it?
Jonnie Grimm said,
July 29, 2010 @ 2:07 pm
Solution:
Follow what Rich said on June 28, 2010 @ 8:38 am
EXCEPT
instead of running setup.exe –ignoreSysPrereqs on step 3 navigate to the install folder and run this:
oui.exe –ignoreSysPrereqs
This worked for me.
patfla said,
July 30, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
I’ve installed Oracle 11.1.2 on Windows 7 and it works fine. Both sqlplus and Enterprise Manger work and I’ve used each to explore different aspects of Oracle (which I’m new to).
The standard install makes db ORCL. I’ve made a second database, TEST1, several times, but have the same problem with it: sqlplus works but Enterprise Manager does not. First I made TEST1 with the Database Configuration Assistant and had this problem – did that several times investigating various things (e.g. database services, listeners, etc). I next figured out how to, with scripts, make a simpler TEST1 (less objects inside it) which was an interesting exercise. However EM still doesn’t work.
Have looked through the sql*net admin manual although I don’t think I’ve memorized the whole thing. And I’ve tried all different kinds of avenues but so far without success. I’ve posted on the OTN forums but I think my questions were regarded as stupid and or lazy.
Could my problem possibly be related to Windows 7? It would seem that if the first db (ORCL) configures OK for EM then in principle the second should work as well. Except that it doesn’t.
I understand that there’s a problem with DHCP addresses and have the Windows Loopback Adapter installed configured to 192.168.1.25 which doesn’t conflict with any other local network addresses and, in principle, should handle what I read can be confusion as regards the value of localhost. I’ve made no changes to c:\windows\system32\driver\hosts.
Here’s a possibly really dumb question: a second database goes under the same ORACLE_HOME as the first db (ORCL)? That’s where TEST1 is now and I haven’t seen anything on the web or in the documentation to lead me to believe otherwise. One implication is that the two dbs share the same listener.ora, tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora.
Sumit said,
August 19, 2010 @ 1:13 pm
you can run the setup as follows:
setup.exe -ignoreSysPrereqs
Don Slaughter said,
August 20, 2010 @ 10:18 pm
I want to install Oracle 11g R2 Enterprise and Portal 11G on a single server Windows 7 64 bit OS platform. Will these products run on the win 7 64 bit platform ?
Coleman Leviter said,
August 26, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
I installed Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 – Production onto a Windows 7 PRO 32 bit platform.
So far, my only issue resides with XML “Pretty Print”. I doesn’t work; that is, when I query a relational table and use XMLSERIALIZE (Document), I get a non indented output (or an output that doesn’t display the parent child relationship).
It’s worked before on XP PRO 32 bit using 10.2.0.1.
Any suggestions?