Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)

root@ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-24-virtual #1 SMP Tue Jul 7 20:55:36 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19G 5.0G 14G 28% /
varrun 1.5G 36K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 44K 1.5G 1% /dev
devshm 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
root@ubuntu:~# dpkg-query -W alien
alien 8.69
root@ubuntu:~# dpkg-query -s alien
Package: alien
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 276
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 8.69
Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
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It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.
.
This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
Original-Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
root@ubuntu:~# cd oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm/
root@ubuntu:~/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm# cd Disk1/
root@ubuntu:~/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm/Disk1# sudo alien to-deb scripts oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l7): badly formatted heading line
LINE: -Added check to disallow the install, if physical memory(RAM) is less than 256 MB
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l8): badly formatted heading line
LINE: -Check and disallow the install,if 11.2XE OH location (/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe) is not empty.
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/oracle-xe
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
sh: gcc: not found
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: Couldn't determine gcc system type, falling back to default (native compilation)
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libpthread.so.0 needed by debian/oracle-xe/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/ctx/lib/libos_xwin.so (its RPATH is '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe/ctx/lib:.').
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored)
dh_gencontrol
sh: gcc: not found
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Couldn't determine gcc system type, falling back to default (native compilation)
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l7): badly formatted heading line
LINE: -Added check to disallow the install, if physical memory(RAM) is less than 256 MB
parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l8): badly formatted heading line
LINE: -Check and disallow the install,if 11.2XE OH location (/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe) is not empty.
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'i386' does not appear in package's architecture list (amd64)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: oracle-xe-11.2.0: No such file or directory
root@ubuntu:~/oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm/Disk1#