- Prepare build environment
$ sudo apt-get install alien build-essentials
- Download basic,devel and sqlplus RPM packages from Oracle website
- for i386 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxsoft-082809.html
- for x64 from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxx86-64soft-092277.html
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Convert to Debian packages using alien
$ sudo alien oracle-instantclient12.1-*
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Install newly created packages
$ sudo dpkg -i oracle-instantclient12.1-*deb
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Setup build environment for DBD::Oracle and build it
$ export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64 $ export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib $ cpanm DBD::Oracle