Ubuntu 9.10 (and Oracle's support for it)

It's official... CentOS is exit, I'm now running Ubuntu 9.10 (or Karmic Koala).

Of course, I'll set up Oracle again, which appears to be very easy, as Oracle provided a Debian (and thus Ubuntu) repository. This should allow Debian and Ubuntu users to install Oracle by using Synaptic Package Manager. Point an shoot installs... I am curious!

Add the repository

You do have to make Ubuntu aware of the fact Oracle is a source of software, too. For that, you need to add the location of the repository to your configuration. This is accomplished by:

frank@cs-frank03:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Scroll to the bottom of the file, and add:

# Oracle stuff
deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free

After that, update the libraries to allow Software Center to show Oracle, enter:

frank@cs-frank03:~$ sudo apt-get update

Now, fire up Synaptic, and click on the 'Origin' button; you should see oss.oracle.com/main listed. Point at it, and you will see XE (in two flavours) and the XE client.

Now, if only I just wanted XE...

yum

For non-Debian, there's support for yum as well; check it out!