Quick Install Guide for Oracle 10g Release 2 on Mac OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard (Intel)
I was very surprised that Oracle released Oracle Database for Mac OSX, especially, version 10g now that 11g has been out for almost 2 years. Well, I guess Oracle wanted to please Mac users expecting things just work and decided that good proved 10g is the way to go. On the other hand, we’ve been supporting 11g in production for quite a while and I must say it’s much better quality compare to 10g when it came out. I’m pretty sure there was a significant customer that influenced that decision — interesting who might that be?
Anyway, there is no quick install guide for OS X but only a standard Oracle® Database Installation Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Apple Mac OS X (Intel). It’s fine but if you want to install Oracle on your MacBook and not for production use then you might take some shortcuts and follow a quick instructions so I gathered my notes while installing just released Oracle Database 10.2.0.4 on my MacBook and this is what you see now.
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