Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:00:16 -0500 From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret@fbsd1.dyndns.org> To: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> Cc: freebsd-database@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD Message-ID: <1160524816.70546.287.camel@fbsd1.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20061010220934.GA1484@dfwdamian.vail> References: <20060711162744.A22592@malcolm.berkeley.edu> <452C09B6.4030009@pobox.sk> <20061010220934.GA1484@dfwdamian.vail>
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On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:09 -0500, Damian Wiest wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:59:34PM +0200, martinko wrote:
> > Mike Friedman wrote:
> > > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle
> > > client-only with encryption support.
> > >
> > > First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7.
> > > But my database support person tells me that's quite old and, in fact,
> > > he couldn't be sure it would work (especially the encryption part) with
> > > the Oracle database I'd be using (which he helps support). And I was
> > > getting some strange symptoms when I tested it.
> > >
> > > So, he recommended that I download the Oracle 10g Client for Linux.
> > > Since my FreeBSD system is configured for Linux compatibility, I'm
> > > hoping this will work. However, I can't even get the Installer to
> > > complete! It keeps telling me that I may not have enough space in my
> > > root partition, even though I'm not trying to install into the root
> > > partition. (The partition in which I'm installing has lots of space).
> > >
> > > In addition, I should say that the machine on which this Oracle client
> > > will be installed is not running X Windows. This means I can't use the
> > > installation menus, so I've been running the Installation tool with a
> > > 'response file'. The response file, however, doesn't have much
> > > flexibility. In particular, when I'm told I may not have enough space,
> > > it asks me if I want to continue, but there's no way for me to reply
> > > 'yes' from the response file.
> > >
> > > In any case, based on the installation logs, it really looks like the
> > > Installation tool is looking at the root partition for how much space is
> > > available.
> > >
> > > I've found in the FreeBSD handbook an article on installing Oracle 8.0.
> > > But it appears that there have been changes with 10g. Also, those
> > > instructions seem to assume a server install, so they talk about setting
> > > some shared memory values and other things that may not apply to me anyway.
> > >
> > > Do I have any other options? I don't want to install the full Oracle
> > > package (client and server), just the client, so that I can write some
> > > perl scripts to query a remote Oracle database.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> > Mike, have you considered linux-oracle-instantclient-* ports ?
>
> If all you want to do is use Perl to access the database, then why are
> you bothering with Oracle's client software? Just use the CPAN module
> to build and install DBD::Oracle.
He can't, DBD::Oracle uses oci underneath so he needs the Oracle client to get the shared
libraries. Mike you also need to compile or install a linux perl and then install DBI & DBD::Oracle
with the linux perl. You could use DBD::Proxy instead of installing DBD::Oracle. It installed
with DBI. Type 'perldoc DBD::Proxy' to see the docs. If you need help, you can email me
or join the dbi-users@perl.org.
>
> Just curious, but how were you able to perform a silent install wihout
> a frame buffer? I ran into this problem installing Oracle 9i, but used
> xvfb as a workaround.
>
> -Damian
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Scott T. Hildreth <shildret@fbsd1.dyndns.org>
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