Installing Oracle XE 11g on Ubuntu

Installing Oracle XE with Docker

Docker is an application container for Linux. It is based on LXC and gives you the ability to package complete application including their dependencies to a self-containing file called an image. These images can be exchanged and run on every Linux machine where Docker is installed.  It is the easiest way to install Oracle XE. Docker images are also shared around the community on https://index.docker.io.

1. First, you need to install Docker on Ubuntu. Follow the instructions given in this doc.


2. Pull the image to your machine using the following command :



docker pull arahman/docker-oracle-xe-11g



3. Run the image using the following command :



docker run -d -p 49160:22 -p 49161:1521 -p 49162:8080 arahman/docker-oracle-xe-11g /sbin/my_init



4. Connect to the database with the following setting:



hostname: localhost
port: 49161
sid: xe
username: system
password: oracle



5. You can connect to the database using SQL*Plus