Oracle client install?

[Michael.Johnston]

Thanks,
Last time I looked it was 'offline'. His company is no more.
Mike J.
 

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	Subject: Re: Oracle client install?
	
	

	On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:47:54PM -0600, Michael.Johnston wrote:
	> Hi,
	> 
	> I have been through Google and the archives.
	> 
	> I have been trying for two weeks to install an Oracle client
	> on Fedora core 2. I am especially interested in OCI and using
	> it with PHP.
	> 
	> I don't have a working installation on a Linux machine to copy
	> files from.
	> 
	> I tried the instant client RPMs - this does not install OCI or
	> configure the system.
	> 
	> Is there information and files available to easily install an Oracle client
	> on a Fedora Core 2 machine? Easy is the operative word.
	> 
	> It seems strange to me that Oracle would not make it easy to install
	> the client software on every computer in the universe. That is just good
	> marketing. Not many companies are going to want to pay RedHat
	> for a supported version of Linux to run on all 50,000 desktops in a
	> corporation. (Sorry for the editorial).
	> 
	> 
	
	Mike:
	
	Have you looked at www.puschitz.com? There are detailed instructions
	there for many Oracle installs on many RH variants. I don't recall if
	FC2 is one of them, but it's certainly worth a look.
	
	Fred
	
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