Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist
Create an Oracle Inventory group manually as part of a planned installation, particularly where more than one Oracle software product is installed on servers.
By default, if an oraInventory group does not exist, then
the installer uses the primary group of the installation owner for
the Oracle software being installed as the oraInventory group. Ensure
that this group is available as a primary group for all planned Oracle
software installation owners.
If the
oraInst.loc
file does not exist,
then create the Oracle Inventory group by entering a command similar
to the following:# /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 54321 oinstall
Parent topic: Required Operating System Groups and Users