Monday, July 26, 2010

Installing Oracle XE on 64 bit CentOS Linux

In this paper is described how to install Oracle XE on a Linux 64 bit.

1). First you must run an update of your entire system.

# yum update

2). Install additional 64 bit packages.

# yum install binutils compat-db control-center gcc gcc-c++ glibc glibc-common gnome-libs libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make pdksh sysstat xscreensaver sendmail bc

3). Install 32 bit packages

# yum install libaio compat-libstdc++-296

4). Install Security Packages

# yum install system-config-security*

5). Install Oracle XE

# rpm -ivh oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm

6.) Configure Oracle XE and done!

# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure