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I recently installed Oracle Express Edition 10g on my Ubuntu from apt-get. My problem is I dont know exactly in which directory the Oracle resides. I want to set ORACLE_HOME to the path where Oracle has been installed, so that i can create database from terminal. I’d appreciate any help. Thanks
Will list all the files installed by the oracle-xe package. From that, you should be able to figure out a suitable value for ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME.
It’s possible that the installation has scattered the files around the filesystem, following the usual pattern for Unix applications (eg executables in /usr/bin, libraries in /usr/lib, data in /var/lib/oracle-xe). In that case, there might not be a sensible value for ORACLE_HOME.
According to answers to a very similar question, it seems that the important thing is that ORACLE_HOME points to the location where your static files (code, libraries, and resources) are installed. Something like:
I’m not sure how Oracle then knows where to create the database. Hopefully it doesn’t just put it in the ORACLE_HOME, because that’s in /usr, which should be read-only.