Betul Mas Deddy, Debian sangat amat memudahkan sekali. Ngomong-ngomong, adakah yang Tahu orang-orang dibawah ini? Gara-gara merekalah menginstall Oracle Express 10g menjadi mudah.
<quote> Birth of a .deb Package When XE came out in 2005 I downloaded the .rpm version and installed it succesfully on RHEL4 and SLES9. Seeing that it also would support Debian-based distros, I decided to try and install it on one. I chose Kubuntu as my target OS, mainly because it is a .deb-based distro that uses my familiar KDE desktop. In my opinion, KDE is easier for newbies and for people with a Windows background. (If you prefer Gnome desktop, you might want to try this on Ubuntu.) The only major problem I have with Kubuntu is that Firefox does not come installed by default. In November I used the 'alien' tool to create a .deb packge from the .rpm version, and was able to install a rudimentary database with lots of errors and mangled menus. When I asked Wim about the menus, he said that Joel Becker on our Linux kernel team was looking into creating a .deb package. Developers are "territorial"; they like to "mark their ground" and are the best champions of their chosen technologies. Paul Scott, a IT administrator for a South Africa university was minding his own business, sitting with his laptop in a Frankfurt lobby during the International PHP Conference. On his laptop was a Debian and another sticker I had seen being handed out in conjunction with Ubuntu CDs. Turns out that not only is he familiar with Debian's packaging system, but he has also built packages for Ubuntu64 Linux. At the Installfest we also met Austrian Clemens Fink, who at a previous fest had succesfully installed Oracle Database 10g EE on his own custom-rolled Debian kernel. Paul and Clemens spent about 4 hours cleaning up the menus on the initial OracleXE.deb alpha version, while I sat marvelling at their ability to navigate the differences between the .rpm menu system that XE had originally been built against and the dpkg system. About 30 minutes into it they had a working version. They then spent the rest of the time "debianizing" it and making sure it was done right or in a "Debian way"â"I guess when it is a labor of love and you are working with your chosen technologies, attention to detail comes naturally. Thanks guys! When I got back to HQ, Joel set up a workspace that we could use to collaborate with them, with Joel getting the latest tar balls from ST. After this six-city, three-continent, multi-culture collaboration and several iterations later, the beta version of oracle-xe_10.2.0.1-0.060128_i386.deb was born. </quote>
