Software Installation

Installation Requirements

The following are the minimum requirements for the DRAGEN ORA Decompression Software:

Installing the DRAGEN ORA Decompression Software

Use the following steps to install the DRAGEN ORA Decompression Software once DRAGEN ORA Decompression has been downloaded from the ORA Support Site.

Linux or Mac

1. Extract the archive files using the following command:

tar -xzvf orad.2.7.0.linux.tar.gz (Linux) 
tar -xzvf orad.2.7.0.mac.tar.gz (Mac)

2. Navigate to the Orad directory as follows:

cd orad.2.7.0.linux

3. Move the executable to your preferred location as follows:

mv orad your_preferred_location/

4. Add Orad to your path as follows:

echo 'PATH=$PATH: your_preferred_location/'» ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

5. Move the oradata folder content into the home repository as follows:

mv oradata ~

To store the folder in a different location, use the following command:

mv oradata ~/otherlocation/

When oradata has been moved in another location, you can:

• either point to the reference by using the ORA_REF_PATH environment variable as follows:

export ORA_REF_PATH=~/otherlocation/oradata/

• or use the following command at decompression

--ora-reference ~/otherlocation/

Windows

1. Extract the downloaded archive with a software that can handle gziped tarballs, such as 7-Zip. Right-click on the archive and select Extract with. The following two files are extracted:

• orad.exe

• refbin

The following steps use C:\Users\user1 as an example location. Change C:\Users\user1 to the location where you extracted the archive.

2. Open the Command Prompt application.

3. Set the environment variables to use the orad.exe and the refbin file with the set command or the setx command. The set command configures the variables temporarily (for the current console window) while the setx command configures the variables permanently.

4. Set the path to the orad.exe to the PATH environment variable as follows:

set PATH=%PATH%; C:\Users\user1

or

setx PATH=%PATH%; C:\Users\user1

5. Set the path to the refbin file to an ORA_REF_PATH environment variable as follows:

set ORA_REF_PATH= C:\Users\user1

or

setx ORA_REF_PATH= C:\Users\user1