Hi, For info, Metalink has article about it Are Compilers Necessary for Oracle RDBMS on Linux (Doc ID 557138.1) Regards, Igor 2015-03-02 20:25 GMT+01:00 Chris King <ckaj111@xxxxxxxx>: > Greetings all! > > I’m doing a fresh installation of Oracle 12c and 11g on a new linux RHEL6 > server. Pre-requisites include gcc and gcc-c++ compilers. The system admin > wants to remove these compilers after installation because they constitute > a security risk. I’m thinking doing so should be okay, as long as these > compilers are re-installed when Oracle patches are applied. Does anyone > have experience doing this? > > Thanks in advance. > ChrisK > >