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Installation of Oracle 10g Express Edition on SUSE Linux 10

Visit Oracle and download oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm.

Make sure that you have al dependencies installed:

In a console, as root, type rpm -ivh oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm If all goes well, you should see this output: 

 Preparing...             ################################## [100%]
    1:oracle-xe           ################################## [100%]
 Executing Post-install steps...
 oracle-xe           0:off  1:off  2:off  3:on   4:off  5:on   6:off
 You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as the root user to 
 configure the database.

Do as sugested and execute: /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure . Accept all default values:

When asked for a password, enter a secure password and write it down. You will need the password later to create and access your databases.

Wait a few minutes until the database is started. After configuration has been completed you will see this message: 

 Installation Completed Successfully.
 To access the Database Home Page go to "http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex"

You can verify the installation simply clicking on this link: http://127.0.0.1:8080/apex

The user name that you need to login into Oracle database administrator is SYSTEM and the password is the one that you selected during the installation.

You are now ready to use Oracle with Swordfish. To create a database using Oracle, select Create Database in Database menu and fill the creation dialogue as follows:

Database Name a name of your choice
Database Type Oracle
Instance/DB XE
Server Name localhost
Port Number 1521
User Name SYSTEM
Password The password you selected during installation

Notice the values in bold in the table above. You will have to enter them exactly as they appear on the table, like in this picture:

Create Oracle database in Swordfish