Prerequisites
Although the installation process may vary between platforms, for the purpose of this book, the discussion topics and demonstrations will be based on Oracle GoldenGate V10.4.0.x for Oracle 11g on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0 32-bit.
There are a number of prerequisites we need to be aware of before installing Oracle GoldenGate 10.4. Let's take a look at these.
Downloading the software
At the time of writing, to obtain an evaluation copy of GoldenGate 10.4, we need to log on to the Oracle eDelivery website:
Note
You will need to register and accept the license agreement before you can download any software.
Oracle has placed GoldenGate in the Oracle Fusion Middleware family section, under Business Intelligence. Here you will find Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle and non-Oracle environments on a number of supported platforms.
For example, choose Linux x86 from the drop-down and select Oracle Media Pack v2 for Linux x86. Then click the Continue button.
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