Oracle on Linux notes. Download the 10g Express Edition rpm for Linux. oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm (221,136,869 bytes) (cksum 2319822646) *RPM package (or the debian package) It's also available in the lab: \\kadenix\public Install it: rpm -i oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm [ I had problem of not enough swap space, so created additional 1GB swap in a file: dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=1000000 mkswap swapfile swapon swapfile ???and make it permanent else oracle silently won't start No, it starts with only 384M of swap. ] You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as the root user to configure the database. #manually start/stop XE: /etc/init.d/oracle-xe start|stop|restart|status To access the Database Home Page go to "http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex" Oracle is at: /usr/lib/oracle/xe #without doing this, trying to login with sqlplus gives 12162 TNS error. #sets various environment variables: source /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh /****** obivated by oracle_env.sh #into ~/.bash_profile export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server #run sqlplus /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/sqlplus #add to PATH /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin ******/ command history??? Windows version has it... apparently NOT!!! web search indicates not. Solution: use rlwrap: rlwrap-0.18-1.i386.rpm available on this web site. $ rlwrap sqlplus Can make an alias: alias sqlplus="rlwrap sqlplus" into .bashrc from top, uffda: any way to reduce memory footprint? 3116 oracle 16 0 225m 45m 223m S 0.0 9.2 0:26.80 oracle 3104 oracle 18 0 224m 42m 222m S 0.0 8.7 0:01.52 oracle 3110 oracle 15 0 224m 40m 222m S 0.0 8.2 0:01.42 oracle 3095 oracle 15 0 222m 26m 220m S 0.0 5.4 0:00.12 oracle 3190 oracle 15 0 224m 24m 222m S 0.0 5.0 0:01.20 oracle 3108 oracle 16 0 224m 23m 222m S 0.0 4.8 0:01.07 oracle 3139 oracle 19 0 222m 15m 220m S 0.0 3.2 0:00.07 oracle