Installing Oracle XE on Debian AMD64

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Posted on 2009-2-19 (木) at 10:24 pm

First install 32 bit libs:

sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

Check that you have libaio (it should be part of newer versions of ia32-libs) :

rkitover@caelum ~/tmp/libaio % ls -l /emul/ia32-linux/lib/libaio*          
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 2009-02-15 09:17 /emul/ia32-linux/lib/libaio.so.1 -> libaio.so.1.0.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2752 2007-09-10 18:37 /emul/ia32-linux/lib/libaio.so.1.0.1

If you don't have it, install it:

mkdir libaio
cd libaio
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/liba/libaio/libaio1_0.3.106-3_i386.deb
ar -x libaio1*.deb 
tar zxvf data.tar.gz 
sudo cp lib/* /emul/ia32-linux/lib/

Create an Oracle Technet login if you don't have one yet at http://www.oracle.com/admin/account/index.html.

Grab the i386 XE Universal .deb from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/htdocs/102xelinsoft.html, you'll need to sign in with your Technet login.

Install the .deb:

dpkg --force-architecture -i oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb

Now configure it:

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

Make sure not to Ctrl+C out of the config script, or you will be fucked. If that happens, purge and reinstall.

Your Oracle server is now up and running!

Now you need a 64bit client, go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxx86_64soft.html and grab the "basic lite", "SQL*Plus" and "SDK" instantclient .zip files.

The version doesn't matter, but I use 10.2.

Unzip them all into your user's home directory. Use another location if the installation will be shared amongst users. You should now have an "instantclient_10_2" directory (with the postfix being the version you installed.)

Now you need to link to the server's tnsnames.ora :

cd instantclient_10_2 
mkdir -p network/admin
cd network/admin 
ln -sf /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/tnsnames.ora .

Now set some environment variables in your ~/.bashrc :

export ORACLE_SID=XE
export ORACLE_HOME=~/instantclient_10_2
export XE=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:~/instantclient_10_2:$XE/lib
export PATH=~/bin:~/instantclient_10_2:$XE/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games  
export ORACLE_USERID='hlaghdb/dongs'
export ORACLE_DSN='dbi:Oracle:XE'

Source it or relogin for the next step.

These settings will work correctly for installing DBD::Oracle.

Now your client is configured, but you still need a schema.

sqlplus system/<the-system-password-you-configured>@XE
create user hlaghdb identified by dongs;
grant create session, resource to hlaghdb;

Normally you'd create a tablespace too, but that's a little more advanced, and for the purpose of playing with Oracle this should be more than sufficient.

Now you can connect with to Oracle with:

sqlplus hlaghdb/dongs@XE

See also http://blog.cachemiss.com/articles/Using%20readline%20with%20Oracle%20SQL%2APlus.pod for how to add readline support to sqlplus.


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