Difficulties installing oracle xe under Ubuntu (7.10)

Question

I laid out the difficulties I was having in the Installation forum, and a responder said I would have better luck getting a response in this forum.
Here's what I did:
1) added this to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free
2) ran: wget http://oss.oracle.com/el4/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3) ran: sudo apt-get update
4) via the Synaptic package manager, clicked on "oracle xe". This package was installed along with libaio.
5) checked my applications menu and saw that oracle had appeared.
6) ran: sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure (I changed the port for Oracle Application Express to 9090 so it wouldn't conflict with Tomcat, which uses port 8080. I indicated that I didn't want the database server to launch on boot. I was planning launching as needed from the applications menu).
Now I thought that I was ready to go. So I went to the applications menu and selected start database. A terminal window popped up warning me that I wasn't a member of the dba group. I added myself to the dba group. I restarted my computer and tried starting the database once again from the applications menu.
This time no warning terminal came up. Basically I didn't get any feedback as to whether the database server was actually running. So I tried accessing:
http://127.0.0.1:9090/apex. I was told the browser couldn't establish a connection with the database. I selected "run sql from the command line" from the applications menu. This didnt' work either. The terminal window that came up began like this:
/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh: 114: [[: not found
/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/nls_lang.sh: 114: [[: not found
I also checked my logs:
Oracle Database 10g CRS Release 10.2.0.1.0 Production Copyright 1996, 2005 Oracle. All rights reserved.
[ OCRUTL][3067549888]u_set_comp_error: Parameter was NULL
[ OCRUTL][3067549888]u_set_ocr_error: Parameter was NULL
2008-07-18 22:18:24.502: [ OCROSD][3067549888]utgdv:2:ocr loc file cannot be opened
2008-07-18 22:18:24.502: [ OCROSD][3067549888]utopen:1: Couldnt find ocr,[ocrmirror] location in config file
[ OCRUTL][3067549888]u_set_gbl_comp_error: Parameter was NULL
2008-07-18 22:18:24.502: [ OCRRAW][3067549888]proprinit: Could not open raw device
2008-07-18 22:18:24.502: [ default][3067549888]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [33]
[ OCRUTL][3067549888]u_set_ocr_error: Parameter was NULL
2008-07-18 22:18:24.502: [ CSSCLNT][3067549888]clsssinit: error(33 ) in OCR initialization
Any suggestions?
Deb

Answer 1

Any suggestions?http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=697357
Also:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/430
HTH