XE On Linux

Oracle is installed to: /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle

To start XE

/etc/init.d/oracle-xe start

To stop XE

/etc/init.d/oracle-xe stop

 

export PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin:$PATH
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
export ORACLE_SID=XE

sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

 

If you want to use Oracle XE as your database, you have to set the RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS environment variable to TRUE *prior* to running RCU. As a reminder as to support level, when running RCU against XE you will receive a warning stating that the database version is not supported by Oracle.