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Old June 27th, 2008, 08:01 PM
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Hi,

A few years ago (2000 ?) I installed an oracle client on a linux server
(oracle8iR2 on Debian Woody) and everything went beautifully. (with
DBD::Oracle)

Now, I need an oracle client on my new laptop. (debian Sarge)

I tried oracle 10g instant client but whitout success. See below.
Quote:
zorro@armada:~/tmpOra/instantclient10_1$ ls -al
total 85788
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorro zorro 4096 2005-05-24 17:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 zorro zorro 4096 2005-05-23 19:02 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 14428 2005-05-24 17:11 a.out
-r--r--r-- 1 zorro zorro 1461081 2004-11-08 21:25 classes12.jar
-r--r--r-- 1 zorro zorro 1353 2004-11-08 21:25 glogin.sql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 13495923 2004-11-08 21:25 libclntsh.so.10.1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 2121849 2004-11-08 21:25 libnnz10.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 1229425 2004-11-08 21:51 libocci10_296.so.10.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 913575 2004-11-08 21:25 libocci.so.10.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 66159152 2004-11-08 21:25 libociei.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 96517 2004-11-08 21:25 libocijdbc10.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 760686 2004-11-08 21:25 libsqlplus.so
-r--r--r-- 1 zorro zorro 1397543 2004-11-08 21:25 ojdbc14.jar
-r--r--r-- 1 zorro zorro 21299 2004-11-08 21:25 README_IC.htm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 14428 2004-11-08 21:25 sqlplus
zorro@armada:~/tmpOra/instantclient10_1$ ./sqlplus
./sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
Quote:
zorro@armada:~/tmpOra/instantclient10_1$
Then I tried to install the client (ship.client.lnx32.cpio)
But this seems not to be possibe on a Debian. Dee below
Quote:
zorro@armada:~/tmpOra2/Disk1$ ls -al
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 6 zorro zorro 4096 2004-10-21 01:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 zorro zorro 4096 2005-05-24 15:37 ..
drwxrwxr-x 8 zorro zorro 4096 2004-10-21 20:40 doc
drwxr-xr-x 4 zorro zorro 4096 2004-10-20 07:56 install
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorro zorro 4096 2004-10-20 07:56 response
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorro zorro 1487 2004-10-20 07:56 runInstaller
drwxr-xr-x 7 zorro zorro 4096 2004-11-21 22:25 stage
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zorro zorro 4408 2004-10-21 01:06 welcome.htm
zorro@armada:~/tmpOra2/Disk1$ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
>
Checking installer requirements...
>
Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1, redhat-3, SuSE-9,
SuSE-8 or UnitedLinux-1.0
Quote:
Failed <<<<

And now I do not know what to do.
I did also try to install the old oracle8iR2 but also without success.

So, has someone already successfully installed an oracle client in Debian
Sarge ??? (and DBD::Oracle)

If yes, could I have a few tips about this install ??

Thanks
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