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Installing Oracle Database XE on Debian, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu. Getting Started with the Free Databases. Review: Summary of our Getting Started tests of the "Free" databases Feature: The only major misstep were the Migration Utlities and Oracle imports One would expect our 3 "free" databases to do reasonably well in the getting Started exercises - but even this grizzled veteran of database usage was impressed with how well the 3 databases did in our tests.

Getting Started with the Free Databases

I was expecting some frantic searches in the support forums but that was mostly avoided. Here is a summary of the results. First, the three "free" databases chosen, IBM DB2 Express C, MySQL 5, and OracleXE were chosen on the following basis. Installing Oracle 10g Express Edition on Linux White box - AMD 64 (x86_64) I had difficulty installing Oracle 10g express edition server on 64 bit White box linux earlier.

Installing Oracle 10g Express Edition on Linux White box - AMD 64 (x86_64)

So I had installed it on my WIndows XP box to use it with my RoR application. Today my windows box crashed and I hunkered down and figured out how to install Oracle on my linux box. Requirements Before Installation or Development.