Oralce on Ubuntu?

stan stanb at panix.com
Tue Oct 10 15:24:55 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:35:14AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> David Symons wrote:
> 
> > On 10/10/06, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> >> Has anyone gotten Oracle working on Ubuntu?
> >>
> >> Is there a HOWTO?
> > 
> > I have Oracle 9i working and have documented the installation process at:
> >     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Oracle9i
> > 
> > There is also an Oracle 10g page:
> >     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Oracle10g
> 
> Oracle 9i is the hard way.  I had 8i installed, but much trouble with 9i.  I
> then installed 10g (much easier than 9i but harder than 8i).  Then they
> released XE as a debian package - oracle-xe.  It installs in minutes,
> problem free (of course XE has a four-user limit and a db size limit).


Interesting.

My actuall need is to connect as a client to an Oracle 7 DB.

What's the easiest way to do that?

-- 
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)




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