I've been working with virtual machines. Which turned out to be a good idea while trying to install Oracle on Ubuntu Linux. I ran into a few problems.

• install the libaio1 package.

Oracle needs this package installed before you install the .deb package. After the package is installed with the dpkg -i command, you are supposed to run the /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure command. However this command produced no response. Nor did trying to stop and start Oracle. After a bit of playing, I did the followig:

ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
export ORACLE_HOME
$ORACLE_HOME/config/script/XE.sh