Workaround to Ubuntu oracle-xe-universal 10g repository problem
880727Aug 6 2011 — edited Aug 9 2011After following the steps of installing oracle-xe-universal in Ubuntu from:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Oracle
I got to the part where one is to run from the Terminal:
sudo apt-get update
[CUT]
W: Failed to fetch http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/Release Unable to find expected entry 'main/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Assuming one's swap space is at least 1 GB, as a workaround one may perform at the Terminal:
cd ~/Desktop && sudo apt-get -y install libaio1 && wget http://oss.oracle.com/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb && sudo dpkg -i oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.1_i386.deb
While it is understood Oracle is not certified for Ubuntu, could the Ubuntu community please have this resolved so we may install Oracle via:
sudo apt-get -y install oracle-xe-universal
instead of a workaround?