Yes you do in this case - it should give you a message after installing the RPM that this must be done (see below)
rpm -ivh oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:oracle-xe ########################################### [100%] Executing post-install steps... You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as the root user to configure the database.