title: Oracle Database Express Edition for Mac
body: <p>I start my second semester of university on the 6th of July and one of my subjects is Database Concepts.</p>
  <p>For the subject, we must install two programs &quot;Oracle SQL Developer&quot; and 'Oracle Database Express Edition&quot;. There is a Mac version Oracle SQL Developer but only Windows or Linux for Oracle Database Express Edition. I tried to install the latter with Docker but keep running into issues. Mainly when I start it there are no logs and I always get this error:</p>
  <p>&quot;The Oracle Database is not configured. You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe-18c configure' as the root user to configure the database.</p>
  <p>The following output is now a tail of the alert.log:</p>
  <p>tail: cannot open '/opt/oracle/diag/rdbms/<em>/</em>/trace/alert*.log' for reading: No such file or directory</p>
  <p>tail: no files remaining&quot;</p>
  <p>I have followed this tutorial and done exactly what he does but at timestamp 11:47 you can see that he has log messages while I just have the error posted above.</p>
  <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbopSCwATIg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbopSCwATIg</a></p>
  <p>Hoping someone can help me with this, if I can't fix this then I will have to use my Windows partition which isn't very convenient. If there. is no solution to this can someone please recommend an alternative of Oracle Database Express Edition for Mac that is free?</p>
  <p>Many thanks.</p>