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This page contains a collection of install guides and tips that worked best for customers as reported in the Linux Discussion Forums and OTN Installfests. (To learn how to host your own Installfest, click here.)

Warning: Not everything here may be fit for consumption on your particular hardware setup. Anytime you do a new OS install or upgrade, you should back up the stuff you care about first!


House Specialties Enterprise Linux: Oracle tests these versions of Linux and support can be obtained under the Unbreakable Linux program. Third-party install guides are not validated by Oracle though.
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Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 on x86 (Oracle) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on x86 (Oracle) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1 (Oracle) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1 on x86 (Oracle) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1 on x86-64 (Oracle) \| Oracle JDeveloper 10g (Oracle) \| Oracle APEX (Oracle)
Oracle Enterprise Linux
Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 on EL5 (John Smiley) \| Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 on EL5 (OTN Installfest) \| Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 on EL4u5 and EL5 (Tim Hall) \| Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on OEL4u5 (Jeff Hunter) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 and Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.1 on OELu4 (OTN Installfest) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 and Oracle Apex 2.2.1 on OEL4u4 (OTN Installfest)
RHEL
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on RHEL4 (OTN Installfest) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1/Rel 2 (Werner Puschitz) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1 and Oracle RAC 10g (Werner Puschitz) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on x86 (John Smiley) \| Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 (Jeff Hunter) \| Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on x86 (John Smiley)
Novell SLES
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on SLES9 (OTN Installfest) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1/Rel 2 (Werner Puschitz) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 (Novell) \| Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on x86 (John Smiley) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1 (Peter Knaggs) \| Oracle Database 10g Rel 1 on x86-AMD64 (Fabrizio Magni) \| Oracle Application Server 10g Rel 2 (10.1.2) (Novell)
Asianux
Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on Power (2.0; Oracle) \| Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on x86-64 (2.0; Oracle) \| Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10.1.6 (2.0; Oracle) \| Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 Install (1.0; Oracle) \| Oracle Database 10g Install & Config (1.0; Oracle) \| Oracle JDeveloper 10g Install (1.0; Oracle) \| Oracle APEX Install (1.0; Oracle)


Catches of the Day Untested and unsupported (and the guides below are not validated by Oracle), but people say they taste great!
	Red Hat 9: Oracle Database 10g Rel 1/Rel 2 (Werner Puschitz), Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4) (Allison Rothmel), Oracle9iRel 2 (O'Reilly Network), Oracle9iRel 2 (Mark Breitung)
	Fedora: Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 on Fedora 8 (Pythian), Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Application Server 10g (ORACLE-BASE); Oracle9iRel 2 (Jeff Hunter)
	Novell SLES10: Oracle RAC 10g Rel 2 on iSCSI/OCFS2 (Mark Fasheh and Todd Trichler)
	Novell SUSE 9: Oracle Database 10g (Novell), Oracle9iRel 2 (Ivan Kartik)
	Novell SUSE 10: Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 (Novell)
	Debian: Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 (on etch; Edison Wong), Oracle Database XE (Todd Trichler), Oracle Database XE (David Pashly), Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 (Graham Williams, Peter Knaggs); Oracle9iRel 2 (Alex Malinovich)
	Xubuntu: Oracle Database 11g Rel 1 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) (Pythian), Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy (Canonical), Oracle Database XE on Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS (Canonical), Oracle Database XE (Todd Trichler), Oracle Database 10g Rel 2 on Ubuntu Dapper (Todd Trichler)
	Gentoo: Oracle Database 10g (Akadia), Oracle9iRel 2 (Brian Duff)
	Mandriva: Oracle Database XE (Mandriva Club), Oracle Database XE (e-angel)


Downloads Because software installation info isn't very helpful without the software
	Oracle Enterprise Linux
	Oracle VM
	Oracle Database
	Oracle Application Server
	Oracle JDeveloper
	Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

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