Friday, February 17, 2023

Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required. Failed

Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required.    Failed 


[oracle@oracle12c database]$ ./runInstaller

Starting Oracle Universal Installer...


Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 1991 MB    Passed

Checking swap space: 0 MB available, 150 MB required.    Failed 

Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors.    Actual 16777216    Passed


Some requirement checks failed. You must fulfill these requirements before


continuing with the installation,


User Selected: No



Solution :

Need to add swap space 




[root@oracle12c ~]# free -g
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:              7           0           2           0           4           6
Swap:             1           0           1
[root@oracle12c ~]#

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