[cx-oracle-users] ImportError: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/cx_Oracle.so)

[M. A. W. <maw...@gm...>]

it took me 2 days to solve the error which i was getting while importing
cx_Oracle
error was

ImportError: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by
/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/cx_Oracle.so)

Solution on Debian

1) apt-get install python2.3-dev (to get config files )

2) set the ORACLE_HOME path on debian root user ( i put in .bashrc file)
ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
  (as i installed oracle 10 g on my debian machine)

3) i downloaded the source from
http://www.cxtools.net/default.aspx?nav=cxorlb
(Source code only)
4) tar  xvzf cx_Oracle-4.2.tar.gz

5) cd  cx_Oracle-4.2

6) python  setup.py  build
7)python  setup.py  install

8) on my machine it loaded the file "cx_Oracle.so" at
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages
9) but my python module path was at /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/
so i copied cx_Oracle.so at the above location

cp /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cx_Oracle.so
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages

then it worked fine

Mukhtar (maw...@gm...)