Trying to install oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm or any .rpm [SOLVED]

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I got as far as making a folder with the file and running "rpmextract.sh oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm"  Which gave me an etc and an usr folder. There is a /home/me/Oracle/etc/init.d/oracle-xe file. I "chmod 111 oracle-xe" then did "./oracle-xe configure". I got this as part of the output.
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/listener.ora: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/listener.ora: No such file or directory
/bin/chown: invalid user: `oracle:dba'
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/tnsnames.ora: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/network/admin/tnsnames.ora: No such file or directory
/bin/chown: invalid user: `oracle:dba'
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/config/scripts/postDBCreation.sql: No such file or directory
/bin/chown: invalid user: `oracle:dba'
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/config/scripts/DatabaseHomePage.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/chown: invalid user: `oracle:dba'
sed: can't read /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/config/scripts/readonlinehelp.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/chown: invalid user: `oracle:dba'
Configuring Database...grep: /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/config/log/*.log: No such file or directory
Done
/bin/chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata/XE': No such file or directory
/bin/chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata/XE': No such file or directory
/bin/chown: invalid user: `oracle:dba'
Starting Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Instance...Done
Installation Completed Successfully.
However, the installation was not successful. How do I undo what I have done and how do I install this correctly? Thank you.
Last edited by Never (2010-09-29 01:45:09)

Answer 1

rpm-org need lua and then beecrypt to work. I could pacman lua but the other bit needed to be taken in as a tarball. I had to do that "tar -xvzf beecrypt" then entered beecrypt and ran makepkg. Bunch of words, then I got a "beecrypt-4.2.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz" file. I turned into the super user and did "pacman -U beecrypt-4.2.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz" which installed the program.I did the same process for rpm-org. This is the correct way to do these things right? As I was unable to do the process directly with rpm-org since it was requiring dependencies and I should not assume super user to install programs outside of a pacman call?
mcmillan wrote:And once you have figured out how to use the AUR, I think you should look to install one of the oracle-xe packages, rather than rpm as in that link, unless karol had a specific reason to suggest installing rpm-org. I have a feeling that mixing package managers like that is likely to end up causing more problems.
Ok, so now that I have the ability to actually open this, oracle-xe-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm, file. You are saying that doing it this way could be bad for the system and I should just use the package build from AUR? How is it bad for the system? Does it merely make it so that pacman cannot uninstall the software.
Also, I can delete the stuff I independently downloaded the,*.pkg.tar.xz files and the *.tar.xz files, without effecting the running installs?