After the installation of Oracle 11g XE on Windows, I anticipated problems installing on Fedora. It’s terrific to report it was by far simpler to install on Fedora. This post provides the steps, and builds on the Fedora configuration published earlier this week.
sudo rpm -iv oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm |
This command will install the packages in verbose syntax and display the following messages:
[sudo] password for mclaughlinm: Preparing packages for installation... oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0 Executing post-install steps... You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as the root user to configure the database. |
root
user, which can be done with this syntax:sudo sh |
In this root
shell, you run the Oracle 11g XE configuration with this command:
/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure |
The following are the text prompts that you accept to configure Oracle 11g XE:
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Configuration ------------------------------------------------- This will configure on-boot properties of Oracle Database 11g Express Edition. The following questions will determine whether the database should be starting upon system boot, the ports it will use, and the passwords that will be used for database accounts. Press <Enter> to accept the defaults. Ctrl-C will abort. Specify the HTTP port that will be used for Oracle Application Express [8080]: Specify a port that will be used for the database listener [1521]: Specify a password to be used for database accounts. Note that the same password will be used for SYS and SYSTEM. Oracle recommends the use of different passwords for each database account. This can be done after initial configuration: Confirm the password: Do you want Oracle Database 11g Express Edition to be started on boot (y/n) [y]: Starting Oracle Net Listener...Done Configuring database... Starting Oracle Database 11g Express Edition instance...Done Installation completed successfully. |
After completing the configuration, you need to do two things. First, you need to modify the .bash_profile
file for your user (covered in the next step). Second, you need to reboot your system.
root
shell by typing the exit
command. This should put you back into your administration account with sudoer privileges. You use vi
to edit and add the following to the .bashrc
file.. /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/oracle_env.sh |
Or, you can write your own file, like this:
# Oracle Settings TMP=/tmp; export TMP TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR ORACLE_HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME ORACLE_UNQNAME=DB11G; export ORACLE_UNQNAME ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/xe; export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID=XE; export ORACLE_SID NLS_LANG=`$ORACLE_HOME/bin/nls_lang.sh`; export NLS_LANG ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then ulimit -p 16384 ulimit -n 65536 else ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 fi fi |
You can now log in to the Oracle database with the following syntax from the command line. You’ll be prompted for the system
password that you entered during the configuration steps. I’ll add another post on SQL Developer later this week.
sqlplus system |
oracleenv.sh
file in the oracle
user’s home directory. While you could put this in the .bashrc
file, the oracle
account isn’t bootable. That’s why I recommend putting it in an environment file.# .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi # Uncomment the following line if you don't like systemctl's auto-paging feature: # export SYSTEMD_PAGER= # User specific aliases and functions . /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/bin/oracle_env.sh # Wrap sqlplus with rlwrap to edit prior lines with the # up, down, left and right keys. sqlplus() { if [ "$RLWRAP" = "0" ]; then sqlplus "$@" else rlwrap sqlplus "$@" fi } # Set vi as a command line editor. set -o vi |
If you want to use the menu choices added by the installation, you need to put your privileged sudoer
in the dba
group. I wrote a blog post on it here.