Installing Oracle XE database on 64-bit Ubuntu

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Mark Nelson

After many years, I took a fresh look at Ubuntu, and I found it to be great!  So naturally, I wanted to install Oracle XE database to play around with.  But this comes as a 32-bit rpm.  What to do?

Fortunately, I found a great post over at littlebrain.org that describes the process and pitfalls in some details.  I wont repeat the whole post here, just the key steps, but I strongly encourage you to head on over and take a look at Aldiantoro’s post!

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386
wget -c http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture libaio_0.3.104-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

Then edit your ~/.bashrc

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

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is a Developer Evangelist at Oracle, focusing on microservices and AI. Mark has served as a Section Leader in Stanford's Code in Place program that has introduced tens of thousands of people to the joy of programming, he is a published author, a reviewer and contributor, a content creator and a lifelong learner. He enjoys traveling, meeting people and learning about foods and cultures of the world. Mark has worked at Oracle since 2006 and before that at IBM since 1994.
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3 Responses to Installing Oracle XE database on 64-bit Ubuntu

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  2. Redial Saluga says:
    July 7, 2011 at 7:59 am

    Maybe this is useful for somebody:
    Had some problems in this step:
    sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
    …
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    oracle-xe-universal:i386

    To solve them I had to edit control inside the .deb package:

    dpkg -e oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
    cd DEBIAN/
    vi control
    (Here remove libc6, the line should eventually read:
    Depends: libaio (>= 0.3.96) | libaio1 (>= 0.3.96)
    )
    tar -czvf control.tar.gz *
    mv control.tar.gz ..
    cd ..
    ar r oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb control.tar.gz

    After that I could finally install oracle xe in ubuntu 64 bit

    Sources:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1759118.html (tonyozr)
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=475127 (Nick)

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