Installing Oracle Express Edition on Ubuntu 11.04

I almost spent the half day of installing Oracle XE database in Ubuntu 11.04 and after going through many blogs, I found better way to install it.

Remember that there is no direct installation file available for ubuntu i.e., debian packages. You get only rpm version of oracle-xe installation file from oracle.com and you need to tweak to install as debian.

First, query for existing oracle packages and uninstall old versions of database.

dpkg-query -l | grep oracle

Now you can uninstall as follows

dpkg -r <package_name>

Now follow the below article to install as deb file.

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=9611617