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

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

On 18 August 2010 21:45, Weber, Geoffrey <Geo...@pa...> wrote:
> You should be able to get the Oracle "Instant Client".  The files you are missing are part of the SDK download on the page.  Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html, select the proper OS, and download the SDK part of the client.  For Linux x86_64, the file is:
>  oracle-instantclient11.2-sdk-11.2.0.1.0-1.x86_64.zip
>
> Unzip that to your ORACLE_HOME directory.  Due to the way your directories are set up, you'll probably have to move the instant_client_11_2 directory's contents up a level to your $ORACLE_HOME dir.
>
> Good luck!

Thanks so much!!  I was able to install cx_Oracle via pip after
putting a symlink in $ORACLE_HOME to the files in the zip as you
suggested (more or less). It feels like a miracle. Now I can get on to
the interesting stuff :)

many thanks
Brianna


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