How to Install Oracle on Ubuntu 9.10
- 1). Click on "System," then "Administration," then select Software Sources." Type the following line into the Software Sources: deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free
- 2). Right-click on the desktop and select "Open in Terminal" to open a terminal window and access the Command Prompt.
- 3). Type the following command into the Command Prompt: "wget http://oss.oracle.com/el4/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle -O- | sudo apt-key add -" This will add the software repository GPG key.
- 4). Enter "sudo apt-get update" into the prompt to update Software Sources.
- 5). Paste "apt-get install oracle-xe-universal" into the prompt to download and install the Oracle XE database server.
- 6). Type in "sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure" to configure the Oracle database server. Follow the on-screen prompts to set up an initial password.
- 7). Enter "gedit ~/.bashrc" to open the text file.
- 8). Add the following lines to the bashrc text file:
"ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export ORACLE_HOME
export ORACLE_SID=XE
export PATH"
This code will establish the Oracle environment variables. - 9). Close, then reopen the terminal window for the system changes to occur.
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