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Installing Tora with Oracle Support

The "tora" database client package in FeistyFawn comes with Postgres support, and MySQL if you have the libraries. This How-To shows you how to build Oracle Instantclient 10g support into tora.

This is client only. You will not install the whole Oracle database.

NOTE: Packages for more recent Ubuntu versions may be found on Launchpad, please also note that /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf must be created instead of setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH since Ubuntu 9.04 (see Help).

First Step: Install Oracle Instantclient

The instructions for this stage are on the page Oracle Instant Client. The Oracle Client SDK is needed to build Tora.

When sqlplus is working correctly, move on to compiling "tora"

Second Step: Build Tora

If all goes well, after a "'long'" time, you should end up with a file in /usr/src called "tora_1.3.21-3ubuntu1_i386.deb". You can install it like this:

If dpkg gives an error like so:

 tora depends on libqt3-mt-psql | libqt3-mt-odbc | libqt3-mt-mysql; however:
  Package libqt3-mt-psql is not installed.
  Package libqt3-mt-odbc is not installed.
  Package libqt3-mt-mysql is not installed.

you can have apt fix its dependencies like so (afterwhich running the above dpkg -i command again should work):

apt-get -f install

Step Three: Using Tora to connect to an Oracle database


This How-To owes thanks to this page from Ben Pinter;


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HowToBuildToraWithOracle (last edited 2017-09-01 23:51:56 by ckimes)