- Windows 32 bit and 64 bit. Unzip the download and run
DISK1/setup.exe - Follow the installer instructions.
- Download the
.rpmpackage from the official oracle website.
- For a Debian based system , download the package from here
Note: If for some reason, you are not able to download the .deb file, you can convert the .rpm package into a .deb using the following command
sudo alien --scripts -d oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
python3 setup.pyThe script will start the download of the package and install it. You will be prompted for your root password.
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Once you are prompted for a username, enter the username as
sys as sysdbaand password as a single keyboard space. -
Once logged in, execute the following commands and replace
USERNAMEandPASSWORDby your a username and password of your choicecreate user USERNAME identified by PASSWORD; -
if you get an error after the above step, execute
alter database open resetlogs; -
if no error, execute the last command to give your user access to the database
grant connect, resource to USERNAME;