How to Install Oracle EBS R12 in PC (Windows)

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 you can choose any other name
(myoreacle.com)
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 you can choose any other name
(myoreacle.com)

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.