Using VMWare 5.0.

Create a ubuntu 7.10 server VM

VM

Select Guest Operating System: Linux/Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.
512 Memory
Bridged Networking
SCSI Adapters/LSI Logic
Create New Virtual Disk
SCSI
20 Gigs

Ubuntu 7.10 Server

Select OpenSSH server so you can terminal into it and sftp into it. Install apache with:

Software

Install Apache:

sudo apt-get install apache2

Install Unzip
sudo apt-get install unzip

Increase Swap Size

root@kubuntu:~# sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=600
600+0 records in
600+0 records out
629145600 bytes (629 MB) copied, 2.1237 seconds, 296 MB/s
root@kubuntu:~# sudo mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 629141 kB
no label, UUID=f267d443-106e-431e-a6e5-ec2c1ebb0a37
root@kubuntu:~# sudo swapon /swapfile

Install Oracle XE Database

There is now an apt-get repository up on oss.oracle.com for XE. Just add: deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free
to /etc/apt/sources.list and then: # sudo wget http://oss.oracle.com/el4/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle -O- | sudo apt-key add -
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install oracle-xe
# sudo /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure

References:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/xe-on-kubuntu.html
and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
You won't be able to view the http://{ipaddress}:8080/apex but you can connect with SQLDeveloper, which is all you need.
See: http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/oracle-install.html for reason.

Setup database

stellent@ubuntu:~$ cd /
stellent@ubuntu:/$ sudo mkdir oradata
stellent@ubuntu:/$ sudo chmod 777 oradata/
stellent@ubuntu:/$ mkdir /oradata/XE
stellent@ubuntu:/$ sudo chmod 777 oradata/XE

create temporary tablespace idc_10g_1_temp tempfile '/oradata/XE/idc_10g_1_temp.dbf' SIZE 200M REUSE AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5120K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED;

create tablespace idc_10g_1_sys datafile '/oradata/XE/idc_10g_1_sys.dbf' size 200M reuse autoextend on next 5120k maxsize unlimited;

create USER idc_10g_1_user IDENTIFIED by idc_10g_1_user temporary tablespace idc_10g_1_temp default tablespace idc_10g_1_sys quota unlimited on idc_10g_1_sys;

grant connect, resource to idc_10g_1_user;

reference:
Oracle Database for UCM

Install Universal Content Server

Checking configuration. . .

The Oracle database is not configured to use the AL32UTF8 character encoding. AL32UTF8 is required to
support multiple character sets. Components and add-ons require multiple character set support for
correct operation.


The configuration check detected some problems with the current
configuration. It is recommended that you correct the warnings
before proceeding with the install.

Review install settings. . .
Content Server Core Folder: /oracle/ucm/10g_1
Java virtual machine: Sun Java 1.5.0_11 JDK
Content Server Native Vault Folder: /oracle/ucm/10g_1/vault/
Content Server Weblayout Folder: /oracle/ucm/10g_1/weblayout/
Proxy authentication through another server: no
Install admin server: yes
Web Browser Path: /bin/bash
Content Server System locale: English-US
Content Server Port: 4440
Admin Server Port: 4480
Incoming connection address filter: 127.0.0.1
Web Server Relative Root: 10g_1
Company Mail Server: mail
Administrator E-Mail Address: sysadmin@mail
Web Server HTTP Address: 127.0.0.1
Server Instance Name: 10g_1
Server Instance Label: 10g_1
Server Description: Content Server 10g_1
Web Server: Apache
Content Server Database: Oracle
Manually configure JDBC settings for this database: false
Oracle Server Hostname: localhost
Oracle Listener Port Number: 1521
Oracle User: idc_10g_1_user
Oracle Password: pibMh7YWO+PJcOYAcvkZdJACJ67d2KbKpG6K5ONuLzA=
Oracle Instance Name: xe
Configure the JVM to find the JDBC driver in a specific jar file: false
Attempt to create database tables: yes
Components:

Proceed with install
1. Proceed
*2. Change configuration
3. Recheck the configuration
4. Abort installation

Sometimes you need to fix up the networking on the image. probably need to turn off the vpn connection.

1. Have only disk, cpu, ram and host-only based network card.
2. Start your vm.
3. To do this first find out which ethernet adapter you have available with the following command:

ifconfig -a
look for the line that starts with 'eth', it might say eth1, eth2, etc.. whichever one you see make a note of it
now update the file: /etc/network/interfaces change eth0 to whatever showed up with the ifconfig command. Save the file and restart networking with the following command:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Now you will want to determine what your ipaddress is in your vm you can do this with the ifconfig command:

ifconfig -a | grep cast

You will have an ip address that looks like: 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x