You can run with as low as 1GB of RAM but you do want to have at least 2GB to avoid your system crawling.Disk space - about 5GB for software installation including temporary needs.If not, you can find Xcode on your OS X Installation DVD or you can download it from from Apple Developer Connection but it’s quite large. You need to install Xcode 3.0 but if you are a Mac enthusiast, you will have it installed already.Update 14-Sep-09: this Guide has been updated for Snow Leopard 10.6. Note that the guide requires OS X Server but for your playground, desktop OS X will work just fine.
You are probably keeping your system up to date and is on the current release (10.5.6 as I’m writing this). 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. I’m pretty sure there was a significant customer that influenced that decision - interesting who might that be?Īnyway, there is no quick install guide for OS X but only a standard Oracle® Database Installation Guideġ0g Release 2 (10.2) for Apple Mac OS X (Intel). 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. Well, I guess Oracle wanted to please Mac users expecting things just work and decided that good proved 10g is the way to go. 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.
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