Oracle 26ai RPM Installation on OL9.7

VirtualBox VM running Oracle Linux 9.7
Downloaded and ran Pre-install package from Oracle
Downloaded and ran 26ai RPM dnf -y install oracle-ai-database-free-26ai-23.26.0-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
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Run the /etc/sysconfig/oracle-free–26ai.conf script to configure the db installation.
The configuration script creates a container database (FREE) with one pluggable database (FREEPDB1) and configures the listener at the default port (1521).
Must be run as root!
login as root: sudo -s
Run: /etc/init.d/oracle-free-26ai configure
Go through the prompts.
Set Password and let the script run.
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Setting Env Vars

export ORACLE_SID=FREE
export ORAENV_ASK=NO
. /opt/oracle/product/26ai/dbhomeFree/bin/oraenv
Done!

Configuring TrueCache

TrueCache gets installed on it’s own server.
You download the same database software, but instead of creating the whole db it’s just a read replica.
I used scp to copy the 26ai software over to the truecache node:
scp ./oracle-ai-database-free-26ai-23.26.1-1.el9.x86_64.rpm user@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:~
Switch primary db to archivelog mode:
Log in as sysdba: sqlplus / as sysdba
See what mode you’re in: SELECT log_mode FROM v$database;
to switch:
SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
STARTUP MOUNT;
ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG;
ALTER DATABASE OPEN;
Install Oracle DB 26ai on the truecache node, but don’t create and configure the database.