Oracle XE Database Configuration failed

Question

I am trying to create an oracle xe database in my vps.

VPS OS : Cent OS.

When try to run

/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

i

Answer 1

Ok the solution may sound weird but today i got the exactly same error while installing Oracle Xe on centos. I struggled a lot to find the answer but in the end the problem was the way i was installing the rpm.

Initailly i used the command

$rpm -ivh oracle-xe.rpm

and somehow it was giving the same error which you are getting.

After that i tried

$rpm -i oracle-xe.rpm 

and it worked for me. Not very sure why will the "h" flag, which is the hash flag cause an issue but it worked for me.