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a mini howto for installing Oracle client in ubuntu server and compiling Qt OCI plugin.
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Oracle Client install in Ubuntu server

(for Qt developers)

installation needs the following procedures:

1. download

download rpm of Instant Client for Linux x86-64 from this link oracle site.

list of required packages:

  • Basic
  • SDK
  • odbc (optional)

2. convert to deb

convert rpm to deb by (Oracle's rpms):
$>sudo alien blah.rpm

3. install oracle client

install deb packages by:
$>sudo dpkg -i blah.deb

4. install libaio1

Oracle's client library (.so files) depend on libaio1:
$>sudo apt-get install libaio1

5. add to the path

make sure Oracle's libs are added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH by:

$>sudo su
$>echo "path/to/oracle/client/libs" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf
$>ldconf

6. compile Qt OCI

compile Qt OCI plugin as described in Qt docs: Qt doc 4.8 the output shoulb be somthing like libqsqloci.so

7. copy to qt plugins

copy (or link) the compiled *.so file to: $>cp libqsqloci.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/sqldrivers
or any other path on your system which contains other Qt SQL drivers.

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