| I recently upgraded my Linux installation to the latest | | | | After the configuration the system automatically starts |
| OpenSuSe 11.2 release and then decided to install also | | | | the Net Listener and the Oracle database 10G |
| the free version of the Oracle database (Oracle-XE | | | | Express. It prints a completion message that the |
| or Oracle Express).. | | | | Installation completed successfully and then suggests |
| The installation of Oracle consists of the following main | | | | to access the database Home page by entering on |
| steps:a) Download Oracle from the Oracle site | | | | your browser the command |
| The site contains different download files for Windows | | | | 127.0.0.1:8080/apexf) I did as instructed, but the |
| and some versions of Linux. Since the package | | | | command was refused because it could not be |
| management in OpenSuSe Linux is based on rpm, I | | | | executed on the server. At the point I started panicking |
| downloaded an rpm file.b) Log in on your system as a | | | | and I thought that I must have made some errors. I |
| root userc) install the rpm file with the commandrpm | | | | decided to uninstall Oracle by running the |
| -ivh oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpmd) execute the | | | | commandrpm -e oracle-xe-univ |
| initial configuration of the database by running the | | | | Then I re-installed from scratch. Unfortunately the |
| command: | | | | results were exactly the same.g) Finally I wondered if |
| /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure | | | | the problem might be connected to the Web server. I |
| The command will ask you to choose the HTTP port, | | | | decided to install Apache (not installed by default) and |
| the listener port, the Sys and System password and I | | | | to to re-install Oracle again. This time everything |
| suggest to keep the suggested default values (i.e | | | | worked perfectly. |
| HTTP port=8080 and listener port= 1521), The system | | | | I found on various Linux Forums that many people |
| will also ask if you want to start the database | | | | seem to have this problem and I suggest them to try |
| automatically at boot time (I choose the yes answer).e) | | | | an installation of Apache before installing Oracle. |