Hacker's Choice - How to Install Oracle 11g XE on Specified Targeted Directory

If you are installing Oracle 11g XE on Linux machine, it is getting installed by default on root (/). And it does not provide a way to change.

Oracle is not providing a way to specify the destination directory / user defined directory for Oracle XE 11g Database. So here is the hack for how to install Oracle XE database on directory of your choice.

create a symbolic link with the name /u01 in root directory which point to /app/oracle.
For Oracle XE 11g  use below commands
--> cd /
--> ln -s / u01

Same trick works for Oracle XE 10g as well.

And .... yeah enough you are done. Go ahead with your normal installation and it will be installed to /app/oracle.