[cx-oracle-users] Installing cx_Oracle on Fedora 12 - Oracle include files

[Brianna L. <bri...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am having trouble installing cx_Oracle on my Fedora 12 machine. Via
pip or manually, I get the error

distutils.errors.DistutilsSetupError: cannot locate Oracle include files

I don't know if I actually _have_ the Oracle include files. I just
have sqlplus64 to connect to someone else's database.

I have these in my .bash_profile:

export ORACLE_VERSION=11.2
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/$ORACLE_VERSION/client64
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export TNS_ADMIN=/etc
export TWO_TASK=fdb.ho

I was also given a couple of files, /etc/tnsnames.ora /etc/sqlnet.ora.

These are the files I have in the $ORACLE_HOME/lib - I tried changing
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to just be set to that, too -
glogin.sql  libclntsh.so.11.1  libnnz11.so  libocci.so.11.1
libociei.so  libocijdbc11.so  libsqlplusic.so  libsqlplus.so
ojdbc5.jar  ojdbc6.jar  xstreams.jar

What files is it looking for?
I don't know much about how Oracle works so I'm pretty lost. Would
just like to be able to read my database via python instead of the
horrid sqlplus command line!

thanks
Brianna