Hey Oracle, Why Not Ubuntu?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 18, 2006 @05:04AM from the i'm-not-good-enough-for-you dept.

OSS_ilation writes "While much has been said about Novell or Red Hat as potential targets for Oracle this week, there are some in the Linux community who believe a different distro might deserve the attention of Larry Ellison. That distribution is Ubuntu, and analysts like Burton Group's Richard Monson-Haefel believed that it would be a better fit for Oracle, which is looking only for an OS and not for any of the baggage associated with Novell, like Netware. Ubuntu, with its huge community base and version 6.06 on the way, could be the perfect fit, he said."

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Re:Ubuntu & Oracle -- two different universes by jwocky · 2006-04-18 06:43 · Score: 4, Informative

installing oracle on debian/ubuntu is about the easiest thing ever:

add following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian/ unstable main non-free
deb-src http://oss.oracle.com/debian/ unstable main

#apt-get update

# apt-get install oracle-xe-universal

# /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

it runs like a dream on my ubuntu box.