This paper (HOWTO) describes step-by-step installation of Oracle 10g release 2 (10.2.0.2) database software on Solaris 10 x86. This paper covers following steps: Pre-Instalation Tasks Download & Install Post-Instalation Tasks Common Installation Errors Pre-Instalation Tasks 1. Create oracle User Account Login as root and create te user oracle which belongs to dba group. su - # groupadd dba # usera