How to Setup Node.js and Oracle JET on Oracle Linux

What if you want to develop Oracle JET in Oracle Linux? Certainly this is possible - both Node.js and Oracle JET run on Oracle Linux or any other Linux distribution. If you follow Oracle JET Setup Guide, you will see Node.js is listed as prerequisite. But it may not be exactly straightforward to install Node.js on Oracle Linux. Below I will guide you through the steps.

Run command to install development tools to build native add-ons to be installed:

yum install -y gcc-c++ make

Enable Node.js yum repository:

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -

Install Node.js:

sudo yum install nodejs

Verify if node and npm was installed successfully:

Next you can follow steps described in Oracle JET setup guide, all straightforward. Install Oracle JET:

sudo npm -g install @oracle/ojet-cli

Create new JET application with OJET utility:

sudo ojet create jetwinapp --template=navdrawer

Run application with OJET utility:

sudo ojet serve

JET application runs on Oracle Linux:

Linux Libraries Prerequisites for WebCenter Suite 11g Installation

There is useful blog post from George Maggessy, about WebCenter Suite 11g installation - Installing WebCenter Suite 11g on Linux for Development. I was following outlined instructions and installed WebCenter 11g components successfully. However, I want to mention one more hint in addition to post above. This hint is about Linux libraries prerequisites for WebCenter 11g installation.

While installing WebCenter Suite 11g, during prerequisites check, three Linux libraries were missing in my case:

• sysstat-5.0.5-1.i386.rpm
• compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2.i386.rpm
• compat-db-4.1.25-9.i386.rpm

As George mentions, you can use yum or apt-get to install those libraries, however you will need to have subscription to Linux support then. I'm not using support subscription for Oracle Enterprise Linux, so I did libraries update manually.

First, I downloaded missing libraries from RPM Search site. Just type there library name you are looking for, and you are ready to download. After you will get required libraries, switch to super user mode with su command in Linux shell and type rpm -ihv libraryname to install it.

When required libraries will be installed, WebCenter Suite 11g installation prerequisites check will pass without warnings.

Installing VMware Tools on Oracle Enterprise Linux

I was installing Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5. Before installing Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, I wanted to prepare VMware image properly. I'm running Mac OS and using VMware Fusion for Linux virtualization. After I installed Linux into VMware image, I started VMware Tools installation for guest OS. You need to run VMware Tools in order to improve display properties and other guest OS runtime characteristics. Actually, it was my first time installing VMware Tools on Linux guest and I faced one small issue I want to share.

After invoking Install VMware Tools option from VMware menu:

You will see VMware Tools image will be opened inside Linux:

I was extracting installation archive directly inside VMware Tools image and it was my mistake - when you want to run VMware Tools installation, you should copy installation package inside guest OS folder structure (for example tmp folder) and run it from there.