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I would like to upgrade the APEX from my 10g XE installation (version 2.1.0.00.39) to the new APEX 3.1. I already tried it but failed :/ So I reinstalled XE and would like to give it a new try ;)
I unzipped the apex_3.1.zip to c:\temp\apex
Following the installation guide I will do the following:
===
sqlplus /nolog
connect sys as sysdba
@apexins SYSAUX SYSAUX TEMP /i/
===
From what I've read in the installation guide, the upgrade process is completed after this step (-> chapter 4: "Post-installation Tasks").
Anything else I need to do?
Thanks!

Hi Stefan,
yes, there are a few more steps necessary:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/3.1_and_xe.html
, especially
2) loading the new images into the XML DB (apxldimg.sql)
and
3) changing the password for the ADMIN user (apxxepwd.sql)
Also, I would install the owa_util patch, it upgrades the toolkit to 10.1.2.0.6.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10513_01/doc/install.310/e10496/pre_require.htm#BABGBJJD
(2.7 PL/SQL Web Toolkit)
After that you would also have to install APEX for your language, e.g. for German:
-- Frontend auf Deutsch installieren
set NLS_LANG=GERMAN_GERMANY.AL32UTF8
cd builder
cd de
sqlplus / as sysdba
ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = FLOWS_030100;
@load_de.sqlRegards,
~Dietmar.

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