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KIIT Student here, hates Windows to the point where I refuse to even run it via dualboot or VM now. Below is a somewhat guide to install OracleDB xe 11 on (Arch) Linux.

Sadly, Oracle no longer officially hosts v11 of this product, so I had to look for alternatives. Our college themselves keep a Windows version copy of original OracleDB, but it's not usable on linux, even if I try it on Wine.

The hardest part was to find the original .zip file, and I finally found it at here

Archlinux hosts an AUR package oracle-xe-11g, which you can install via AUR Helpers like yay or paru.

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TIP: build with all cores export MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)"

CMake modifications

Custom repo at https://gitlab.kitware.com/renhiyama/cmake . I added Modules/Platform/RunixOS.cmake alongwith 2 more similar cmake files, which adds support for my OS target.

You can clone it from mentioned repo, and then build it:

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

# Colors for pretty output
GREEN="\033[0;32m"
YELLOW="\033[1;33m"
RESET="\033[0m"

declare -A deps_map
declare -A app_seen