We go through, step-by-step, the process of installing Oracle 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2) Enterprise/Standard Edition for Linux x86 on a Debian unstable installation as of 2004-06-04. You don't need to know anything about how oracle works. If this is your first installation, I suggest you follow this document closely and you should get oracle 10g running in two hours.
Computer science department now running oracle 9i standard edition. Then why 10g? 10g is better for Oracle DBA to manage the server. Not like 9i, DBA has to ssh to the server machine with -X option( which enable X display) and start the enterprise manager. 10g will allow you to access and manage the server as long as you have the internet connection.
Be sure to have libc6-dev installed as without it some executables in orahome/bin/ will not be created properly as they require appropriate header files from /usr/include/. use apt-get install libc6-dev
You also need to ensure you have wajig. use apt-get install libc6-dev
You may also need to ensure you have at least binutils version 2.14.90.0.7-8 installed (this may apply only to Oracle 8).
original version by: Nikos Drakos, CBLU, University of Leeds revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swanwith significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others.
revised by Qifeng to reflect the need for CS department