Installing Oracle BI 12c on *Nix
One of the obvious options for installing Oracle BI 12c is the choice of operating system. Chapter 3, Installing on Web Server 2012 did a nice job of showing the Oracle BI 12c installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. However, on a *Nix (that is,: Unix or Linux) operating system there are few, if any, differences mainly because the same GUI is available for all operating systems. As the person conducting the installation on a *Nix environment, you may or may not have the option to directly remote or log on to the server allocated for the Oracle BI environment. In which case the *Nix administrator must provide Secure Shell (SSH) access with display/xhosts options or VNCServer access. This will enable one to use a tool such as Putty or TightVNC to access the GUI Oracle BI 12c installation wizard.
A Linux-based virtual machine (VM) image was produced by the Oracle BI Product Management Development team with the release of Oracle BI 12c. It is referred to...