I just tried installing Oracle Express Edition on Debian 3.1, but without much luck. I guess this really is a beta release.
The linux version is currently distributed as an rpm file, so i converted it to a deb file using alien:
alien -d --test -c --verbose oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386.rpm
Next I installed the deb file using apt-get, this worked without problems:
debian:/etc# apt-get install oracle-xe Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: oracle-xe 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/198MB of archives. After unpacking 384MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 13700 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking oracle-xe (from .../oracle-xe_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up oracle-xe (10.2.0.1-1.1) ... Executing Post-install steps.......... You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as root user to configure the database.
So far, so good. But this is where the problems start. I tried running the oracle-xe script as indicated in the apt-get output:
debian:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure /etc/init.d/oracle-xe: line 16: /etc/init.d/functions: No such file or directory /etc/init.d/oracle-xe: line 99: init_status: command not found ... ... Configuring Database... /etc/init.d/oracle-xe: line 131: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-xe-config: No such file or directory Starting Oracle Net Listener. /etc/init.d/oracle-xe: line 493: /sbin/chkconfig: No such file or directory You need to configure Oracle Database 10g Express Edition before you can start it.
So now i’m pretty much stuck. Anybody know how to solve this, or is this release just too beta?
Update:
This article is really outdated. There’s nothing easier than installing the production version of Oracle XE on Debian. You can apt-get install the database, no sweat.
October 31st, 2005 at 23:43:57
Which Debian distribution did you try? Pure Debian or one of its derivatives?
October 31st, 2005 at 23:56:41
I believe it will be the best if you will post your help request on OTN forum for XE once it opens up (really soon).
November 1st, 2005 at 00:08:50
I used the plain debian. I started with the i386 businesscard iso, and installed the rest through ftp.
November 1st, 2005 at 00:17:08
Here’s the forum Robert mentioned earlier (registration required)
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=251&start=0
There’s a thread about the install failing on Debian. mtownsen, the product manager, says:
“Installing the RPM version on Debian will not work. We are in the process of producing a full .deb file for install on Debian. We will post this as soon as it is ready. Thanks for the feedback”
Sergio
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:31:58
Ok, i’ll try debian later when the debs are released. In the meanwhile i’ve installed it on CentOS 4.2, without problems.
November 2nd, 2005 at 16:29:47
According to Amedee in this thread on OTN: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=337067&tstart=0, installation on debian 3.1 should work if you install libaio.
November 6th, 2005 at 23:27:43
geesh….for the love of God why can’t you just follow the requirements ?
November 7th, 2005 at 08:54:01
You’re right, the requirement for libaio is in the documentation. But the error messages don’t really help, they don’t indicate that libaio is missing. But that’s alright, it’s still a beta.
November 10th, 2005 at 01:46:48
note for (k)ubuntu: you should use libaio1 instead of libaio. if you want a clean install (and uninstall…), it’s better to wait for a real .deb package. i’m pretty sure you’ll not have to wait for a long time any more
November 11th, 2005 at 17:13:33
Does anybody use Oracle 10g Express with SELinux enabled CentOS4.2?
It hangs at the startup but continues to load if I hit enter.
November 11th, 2005 at 18:50:38
No, i disabled SELinux on installation of CentOS.
December 27th, 2005 at 21:41:00
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January 8th, 2006 at 11:46:51
http://www.guruwired.com/blog
instructions to install xe on debian
January 12th, 2006 at 20:51:19
Here is a small patch for the blody init script that will make it play nice on Debian.
http://www.linux.ee/~anttix/oracle-xe-startupscript.diff
Also sometimes alien manages to create a package that will install itself
without running the install scripts.
Just check if You can see this message:
Executing Post-install steps……….
If not, extract the scripts by hand:
rpm -q –scripts -p oracle…..rpm > scripts.txt
Cut them out (there are 4 of them, just search for “scriptlet” to find them).
Replace all occourences of df -k with df -Pk
(one possible cause of failure is that when You use LVM and volumes have long names df will output two lines per filesystem and preinst script will not be able to parse it).
Then run preinst script and postinst script.
Make sure to install libaio (the package from debian unstable works OK) and run /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
Oh, and if someone would be nice and copy-paste this information to Oracle 10g XE forum for oracle developers to chew I’d appriciate it since the registration doesn’t work for me for some unknown reason (I guess that’s because I don’t use IE or something). Especially the link for startup script patch because I made an effort to tweak it to be as generic as I possibly can.
January 14th, 2006 at 16:03:51
Greetings from Asuncion, Paraguay…
I’m trying to install Oracle XE on my Debian 3.1 box but i haven’t much luck… I followed instructions posted on “www.guruwired.com/blog” and it hanged when “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure” ran… I check for log file in “$ORACLE_HOME/config/log” and no log file was created, executing “netstat -lpn” I noted that the listener (tnslsnr) run on port 1521 but not yet htmldb on port 8080… I try changing values for “sga_target” and “pga_aggregate_target” from 0M to 256M, I don’t know what format must take this values within the files “init.ora” and “initXETemp.ora”, maybe that I set wrong… another doubt, I used a .deb maked with “alien” on a Debian Woody 3.0 version, this can cause any problem with the installation? I noted too that the directory “/usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata” wasn’t created during the installation or this directory are created when I run satisfactorily “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure”?
Thanks to anyone for any help..
January 15th, 2006 at 01:26:57
Do You have libaio installed?
If yes, edit /etc/init.d/oracle-xe and remove redirection to /dev/null to see error messages.
Oh, and did You comment out the rm seeddb line?
January 17th, 2006 at 21:49:48
I’ve posted instructions how to build a decent .deb to:
http://www.guruwired.com/blog/?p=16#comments
January 17th, 2006 at 22:39:58
Yes, I have libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb installed… I commented out line 205 in “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe”, I commented out too all “/dev/nul” lines on “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe” then I have displayed what doing the script like you recommended to me… I found multiple “Permission denied” messages now that I can see messages while running “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure”, I chown the oracle-xe script to “oraclexe:dba” and I tried again “/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure” and now it finished well… Now I’ll make symlinks to /etc/rcX.d to try to start automatically when system startup… Many thanks to you…
January 29th, 2006 at 00:39:34
For the Xpress I did the following:
1. apt-get install rpm alien libaio
2. alien -s –-test –-verbose -c oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386.rpm
3. cd cd oracle-xe-10.2.0.1
4. wget http://www.linux.ee/~anttix/oracle-xe-startupscript.diff
5. cat oracle-xe-startupscript.diff | patch -p1
6. dpkg-buildbackage
7. cd ..
8. dpkg -i oracle-xe_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
9. /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
… but the link above (two posts higher) is the on eI used as well.
For the Enterprise Installation check http://www.gutermann.net/debian-linux/installation-von-oracle-auf-debian-linux-sarge-sid-remote/
March 2nd, 2006 at 07:37:11
Add this to your sources.list and update:
deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian/ unstable main non-free
We’ve got libaio there as well for folks using stable.
Joel Becker
March 7th, 2006 at 20:45:37
This article is not actual now. From now you can use http://oss.oracle.com/debian repository for quick and safe Oracle XE installation.
http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/03/07/how-to-install-oracle-xe-on-debian-sarge/ – this is article about how to do it.
March 23rd, 2006 at 03:18:53
i think this is not the right place for my question but anyway i see some posts about centos. I’m trying to install xe on centos 4.2 and i’m stucked with this error:
[root@localhost RPMS]# rpm -ivh /root/oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libaio >= 0.3.96 is needed by oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386
Suggested resolutions:
libaio-0.3.103-3.i386.rpm
the package already installed is libao-0.8.5-2.EL.0… so i dont know what to do… maybe is linux newbie question , but should i erase the newer one and install the older?
thanks in advance.
March 23rd, 2006 at 08:50:42
libao and libaio are two different libraries. libao is an audio library and libaio is a library for asynchronous i/o. You’ll need to install libaio as suggested.
March 25th, 2006 at 08:57:23
thanks a lot , i’m sorry i didn’t notice that ‘ i ‘ :S (i’ve been practicing fast reading ). I succesfuly installed libaio-0.3.103-3.i386.rpm it comes in the cenOS cd 3 , but now i got another problem:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh /root/oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition requires a minimum of 256 MB of physical
memory (RAM). This system has 249 MB of RAM and does not meet minimum
requirements.
error: %pre(oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1
I guess my video card take that 7m so i cant pass that check , is there anyway to fool the installer ? ( i got no plans to buy more RIMM memory) , i have 9i and XE on the same machine and i didn’t get that error…
thanks in advance.
March 25th, 2006 at 09:00:12
In the last line of the previos post i forgot to mention the another OS installed in the machine is windows XP
June 5th, 2006 at 00:40:14
I found the way:
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh –force –nopre /root/oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-0.1.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:oracle-xe ########################################### [100%]
Executing Post-install steps……….
You must run ‘/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure’ as root user to
configure the database.
November 5th, 2006 at 15:34:25
Hi.. can you give me exact steps to install libaio? I have downloaded the tar file but cant seems to install it
February 5th, 2007 at 09:18:50
I want to down load oracle Xe software.
February 5th, 2007 at 10:15:17
I want to downloade Oracle Xesoftware
September 17th, 2007 at 18:19:31
run
sudo ./ /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure
icurtain
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