Oracle 10G Express Newbie questions

Hello everyone! I am completely new to oracle and I was wondering if you guys could answer some of my questions. I installed Oracle 10g Express rpm (oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm) and Zend for oracle with the assumption that all the environmental variables would be set and everything would be ready. Unfortunately, this was not the case:
The instructions say to setup the ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME but I don't know what those need to be. I'm assuming ORACLE_HOME can be any directory and ORACLE_BASE is the path to libraries or executables or something. This is not very clear to me in the instructions. By the way, X windows is not installed on my server so everything I do must be from the shell.
My question are:
1) On a standard rpm install of 10g Express, what should the environmental variables ORACLE_BASE & ORACLE_HOME be (installed in /usr/lib/oracle/ ) ?
2) Assuming that X windows is not installed, what are the best ways to connect to the DB? sqlplus? http://www.test.com:8080/apex? clients?
3) Can the windows client be used to connect to 10g Express on a linux server?
[root@localhost javier]# /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/sqlplus
Error 6 initializing SQL*Plus
Message file sp1<lang>.msb not found
SP2-0750: You may need to set ORACLE_HOME to your Oracle software directory
[root@localhost javier]# env
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000
OLDPWD=/
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0
USER=root
ORACLE_SID=orc1
ORACLE_BASE=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle
MAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0//bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/binINPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/home/javier
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root
LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/sqlplus
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
_=/bin/env

The question is more appropriate in the XE forum at Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)
Hopefully you already registered your copy of XE so you have access to the forum. Otherwise look for the registration link at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html

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Deutsch
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