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The document provides instructions for installing and configuring an Oracle client on CentOS 6. It outlines downloading required RPM packages, using yum to install the packages, creating a tnsnames.ora file to store database connection information, configuring environment variables via a shell script, and testing the installation by connecting to a database with sqlplus.

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CentOS 6: Install and Configure Oracle Client


Requirements
You must have downloaded RPM Packages for your desired Oracle Version. Those packages can be downloaded from Oracle Website (but requieres authentication, you could need create an account).
Packages are:
oracle-instantclient12.1-basic-12.1.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
oracle-instantclient12.1-sqlplus-12.1.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
oracle-instantclient12.1-devel-12.1.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

For the future, i will include a post with how to download these packages

1. Oracle Client Installation


In a terminal as root (or sudo user) set your current directory to your downloaded RPM Packages and xecute:
[root@HOST ~]# yum localinstall oracle* --nogpgcheck

2. Configure TNSNames.ora
tnsnames.ora file is used to store database connection information. This file must be created and configured
in your current client installation.
To do this, first create your network/admin directory
[root@HOST ~]# mkdir /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/network/admin -p

after, create or put your tnsnames.ora in this folder.

3. Configure Environment Variables


Create file /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh with the following file content
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

Now you can; 1) logout and logon again 2) run sh /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh

4. Test Installation
To test if Oracle Client and tnsnames.ora works properly execute the following command
[root@HOST ~]# sqlplus username@ALIAS_IN_TNSNAMES_ORA

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December 18, 2013 at 2:28 pm

Could you try to run


export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
to set your variables and after try:
sqlplus username@ALIAS_IN_TNSNAMES_ORA
to check if is working?
if this works, just create /etc/profile.d/oracle.sh file with this content
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
Then logout and logon again.
Hope it helps

robertow
November 18, 2013 at 5:37 pm

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I performed you described steps but I dont have any env variables set. Also I cant run /usr/lib/oracle
/11.2/client64/bin/sqlplus. Error message is:
/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/bin/sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

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