Download and Install Oracle Database XE 11g on Google Compute Engine

Part 2 of the Video Series "Oracle Application Express on Google Compute Engine"

In this video, we provide steps on how to setup and install Oracle Database Express Edition 11g on Google Compute Engine.

Below are the steps done:

Pre-requisites

1. yum install unzip libaio bc flex
2. Swap

In this example, we will create a swap file of size 2GB using the dd command as follows. Note that bs=1024 means read and write up to 1024 bytes at a time and count = (1024 x 2048)MB size of the file.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1024 count=2097152

And then set the appropriate permissions on the file; make it readable only by root user as follows.

chmod 600 /mnt/swapfile

Now setup the file for swap space with the mkwap command.

mkswap /mnt/swapfile

Next, enable the swap file and add it to the system as a swap file.

swapon /mnt/swapfile

Afterwards, enable the swap file to be mounted at boot time. Edit the /etc/fstab file and add the following line in it.

/mnt/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

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[aftabjilani]

How to connect to this setup from my local sqlplus ?

[DanielGomez-cfsm]

How to connect to this setup from my local sqlplus ?