How to restore Grub from a live Ubuntu cd

Source: Ubuntu Forum
This will restore grub if you already had grub installed but lost it to a windows install or some other occurence that erased/changed your MBR so that grub no longer appears at start up or it returns an error.
(This how to is written for Ubuntu but should work on other systems. The only [...]

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Installing the Oracle Client on Ubuntu

1. First step is to download the Oracle Database 10g Client Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0) for Linux x86 zip file from www.oracle.com and extract it somewhere.
2. Unzip 10201_client_linux32.zip to a folder
3. Open terminal and run
./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
4. Following instructions on OUI to install your software. Note that the error appear when you go about 88% installing [...]

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