- 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
- Convert to Debian packages using alien
$ sudo alien oracle-instantclient12.1-*