Comments on: Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:02:10 +0000

If you see “QT qmake not found”, make certain that your /usr/bin/qmake symlink is pointed at the right version of qmake

sudo update-alternatives –config qmake

By: David

David — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:54:01 +0000

Thank you for your efforts and kindness in sharing these tutorials. As both a Linux and Tora newbie–they are much appreciated. Is there any chance of getting a tutorial or step-by-step for Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit? I have made slight modifications to your instructions to account for preceived differences… but to no avail. Tora compiles and runs, but without the much needed support for Oracle.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:53:26 +0000

Hey brad,

just wanted to say thank you for the tutorial. Saved me a lot of hassle when I wanted Tora inclusive the oracle connection provider.

By: Aario

Aario — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:28:28 +0000

During installation of qt4-qmake I encontered this error:
Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_assistant_set_page_header_image: assertion `child != NULL’ failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 27.
Found a relating bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/721738
Oh! Is there any open source operating system other than Linux?:D

By: Aario

Aario — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:20:47 +0000

Hi,
It’s not working on Kubuntu 11.04.
All done as you wrote. qt4-qmake is also installed. I even reinstalled 4 times! The only I got is that “QT qmake not found!”.
No where can find a solution to this. Since this is a very fundamental component for compiling, Looks like 11.04 is not compatible to compiling any QT program:(

By: papseddy

papseddy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:35:43 +0000

hi all,

i follow the whole step in my ubuntu machine, but didnt get oracle tab in tora. i spend 4 days but i m not able to install tora with oracle.

# uname -a
Linux XXXX 2.6.32-31-generic 61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:25:51 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

i download both oracleclient 11.2 and 11.1 (both 64bit) and tora (tora-2.1.3). i follow the complete steps. at the end i also got tora_2.1.2-1_amd64.deb file and tora-dbg_2.1.2-1_amd64.deb.

i install that packages. but i unable to build tora with oracle.

please any boddy help me for build it out. if any thing from my side i will going to do.

i m on the hanging position.

thankz

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:04:26 +0000

i can’t install instant client :(

root@uaque:/home/uaque/Downloads# alien -i oracle-instantclient11.1-basic-11.1.0.7.0-1.i386.rpm
Unpacking of ‘oracle-instantclient11.1-basic-11.1.0.7.0-1.i386.rpm’ failed at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 168.

168 line is: $this->do(“rpm2cpio “.$this->filename.” | (cd $workdir; $decomp cpio –extract –make-directories –no-absolute-filenames –preserve-modification-time) 2>&1″)
or die “Unpacking of ‘”.$this->filename.”‘ failed”;

By: Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead

Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:36:39 +0000

Also I did have to revert from using the CMAKE env vars to using the symlink to $ORACLE_HOME/include. For some odd reason the CMAKE vars did not work the same as they did on 10.04. The symlink it easier anyways. :)

By: Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead

Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:31:10 +0000

I have a working version on 10.10, I did it last night (instead of sleeping). I’ll be putting up that blog in the next couple of days. There were a few differences to be sure.

The one issue I am still having is that the oracle environment variables are not being sourced by X so I cannot start TOra from the GUI without hacking the menu, which will not do. I hope to have that fixed by blog date so if you are testing it do your testing from the command line for now.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:39:27 +0000

OK I made it work. I also figured out that the compile I was trying on my VM wasn’t finding Oracle:

– Found Oracle: /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib/libclntsh.so (ORACLE_HOME=’/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/’)
– Found XML Oracle: ORACLE_INCLUDES_XML-NOTFOUND ORACLE_LIBRARY_XML-NOTFOUND
– Oracle not found.
– Oracle: You can specify includes: -DORACLE_PATH_INCLUDES=/usr/include/oracle/10.2.0.3/client
– currently found includes: ORACLE_INCLUDES-NOTFOUND
– Oracle: You can specify libs: -DORACLE_PATH_LIB=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.3/client/lib
– currently found libs: /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib/libclntsh.so
– No Oracle OCI found. TOra will be build without Oracle support

So instead I compiled using the full client rather than the instant client on my main machine. That means the line above:

export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/oracle/11.2/client

has to change to something like:

export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/client_1/rdbms/public

And the other problem I had with compiling against the full client (which I mentioned in an earlier comment), I found the solution at:
http://www.pythian.com/news/4747/installing-tora-with-oracle-support-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/#comment-414855

which is to add the following to /etc/dpkg/shlibs.override
#
libclntsh 11.1
libocci 11.1

I am now going to try to increase the version number with debchange/dch and recompile so I don’t have update issues. Thanks again–never could do this without the guides and comments I found here!