Subject: Re: [vserver] Installing the Oracle 10g XE on guest ...
From: Roman Vesely <roman@liten.cz>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:02:22 +0200



I installed and run Oracle on Debian/vserver without major problems.
(with swap)

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/xe-on-kubuntu.html
http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-install-oracle-on-debian/

Roman


On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:35:48 -0500
Timothee Besset <ttimo@idsoftware.com> wrote:

> Oracle is only certified for RedHat systems. I installed it on 
> Debian/Ubuntu in the past and there are serious difficulties to
> overcome simply because the distribution is not supported. I would
> recommend getting a CentOS guest setup first and performing the
> installation on that.
> 
> TTimo
> 
> Dragan Saraginov wrote:
> > Hi to all. Hope you all are OK.
> >
> > I have a simple question is there a way for Oracle 10g XE be
> > installed on linux-vserver guest. I have tried to install this
> > package on my Ubuntu 8.10 guest but the installation script was
> > stopped complaining about the amount of swap space (it is 0MB). My
> > question is is there a way to avoid the swap check or trick the
> > installation script about the swap space.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Dragan Saragin
> >
> >   
>