Instant Client for linux

sometime for some reason,ex. you can't install on the host,not get the install package,or others.but you want connnect the oracle database via sqlplus only,in times you can use oracle Instant Client,the package very small than database or client package.

i will show how-to use the package conn the database.

0. download the package and extract file to ~/oraclient.

[gtlions@o564gtser1 ~]$ ll oraclient/

total 185224

-rwxrwxr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 25308 Sep 17 2011 adrci

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 437 Sep 17 2011 BASIC_README

-rwxrwxr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 46228 Sep 17 2011 genezi

-r--r--r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 368 Sep 17 2011 glogin.sql

-rwxrwxr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 52761218 Sep 17 2011 libclntsh.so.11.1

-r-xr-xr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 7955322 Sep 17 2011 libnnz11.so

-rwxrwxr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 1971762 Sep 17 2011 libocci.so.11.1

-rwxrwxr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 118408281 Sep 17 2011 libociei.so

-r-xr-xr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 164836 Sep 17 2011 libocijdbc11.so

-r-xr-xr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 1503303 Sep 17 2011 libsqlplusic.so

-r-xr-xr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 1477446 Sep 17 2011 libsqlplus.so

-r--r--r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 2095661 Sep 17 2011 ojdbc5.jar

-r--r--r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 2714016 Sep 17 2011 ojdbc6.jar

-r-xr-xr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 9352 Sep 17 2011 sqlplus

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 441 Sep 17 2011 SQLPLUS_README

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 177 May 6 12:01 tnsnames.ora

-rwxrwxr-x 1 gtlions gtlions 191237 Sep 17 2011 uidrvci

-rw-rw-r-- 1 gtlions gtlions 66779 Sep 17 2011 xstreams.jar

1. edit env file .bash_profile like follow lines.

[gtlions@o564gtser1 ~]$ cat .bash_profile

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

. ~/.bashrc

fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/gtlions/oraclient

export PATH=$PATH:~/oraclient

export TNS_ADMIN=~/oraclient

[gtlions@o564gtser1 ~]$ source .bash_profile

2. manual edit ~/oraclient/tnsnames.ora connect strings.

[gtlions@o564gtser1 ~]$ cat oraclient/tnsnames.ora

ora11g =

(DESCRIPTION =

(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 10.46.1.3)(PORT = 1521))

(CONNECT_DATA =

(SERVER = DEDICATED)

(SERVICE_NAME = ora11g)

)

)

3. connect it.

[gtlions@o564gtser1 ~]$ sqlplus gtlions/000000@ora11g

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Mon May 6 12:17:46 2013

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to:

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select * from v$version;

BANNER

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production

PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production

CORE 11.2.0.2.0 Production

TNS for IBM/AIX RISC System/6000: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production

NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production

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