Installing Oracle XE onto CentOS 4
I would really like to provide a full tutorial on how to install Oracle XE onto CentOS 4, however, the install was so simple and easy that reading a tutorial would take longer than the install. Plus, Oracle provides a nice little flash based tutorial anyway, just take a look through their online tutorials and you should find it.
I did have one problem; I was missing one dependency. I inserted the CentOS install DVD, found the missing library, installed it (with no problems) and then simply ran the Oracle rpm. Once the rpm was finished, I had to go through a little config script that basically sets passwords, sets the default ports for the web server and the database itself, and asks if you want Oracle to run on startup. That’s it. It really is incredibly simple.
I don’t know if it is this easy on all versions of Linux, CentOS is, after all, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, so that probably accounts for a lot of the simplicity. But I have to say, Oracle has made working with Oracle XE incredibly easy on either Linux or Windows.
what did you use for port and listener. someone i work with configured our install and i can get to it with sql plus but not with browser. i get an error that connection was refused at xxxx.x.x.x:8888. shoul the configuration have been 8080 and 1521?
I simply used the defaults–8080 and 1521.
I have just installed XE under CentOS 5 and can’t get either to the browser and used defaults too.