Re: DBD::Oracle and RHEL Instant Client rpms

On 20/10/2015 19:53, Bruce  Johnson wrote:
> Has anyone else had trouble installing DBD::Oracle with the latest 12.1 instant client?
>
> I installed the Basic and Development IC rpm’s and the DBD installer complained it couldn’t determine what version I had, then complained it couldn’t find demo.mk. I finally got it to work by manually telling it what version and the path to the .mk file (which hadn’t changed from previous versions: /usr/share/oracle/<version>/client64…)
>
> The various env values were set correctly, and the files were installed in the usual place, the only difference between this time and the last time I set up a RHEL system was I used the latest 12.1 instant client files rather than 11.2.
>
> [root@kalendaetest DBD-Oracle-1.74-EIJTlU]# set |grep ora
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib
> ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64
> PATH=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/bin
> TNS_ADMIN=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/admin
>
> It worked, eventually, just wondering if others have run into the issue...
>

I don't use an RPM based system. I download instantclient basic, devel 
and sqlplus zips and unzip them then point DBD::Oracle at them by 
setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Did you download the sqlplus RPM (assuming there is one) as DBD::Oracle 
uses sqlplus during the install to work out what version of the Oracle 
client you have?

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Wetherby, UK