Comments on: Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

By: Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) | The Pythian Blog

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:27 +0000

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By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:10:01 +0000

Thanks for the update Tyler. Oddly enough my instructions worked for me with 9.04 and Oracle 11.2 with no changes. The changes mentioned in the referenced blog mention adding in some configure options for TOra, but these should be taken from the environment at build time anyways.

The issue with fakeroot may very well be permissions on the build tree. If you extract the file, or attempt to build as root at any time then fakeroot will no longer work.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:23:09 +0000

http://enoriver.net/index.php/2009/10/29/building-tora-with-oracle-support-on-jaunty/ had the answer. For 11.2 support, the debian/rules line needed just a bit more. Works great now; thank you for the step-by-step instructions.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:49:32 +0000

I get it to compile ok, but Oracle is not listed as a connection. I’ve gone over the initial setup a couple of times (includes, ldconfig, exports), but still no good. I’ve had issues getting fakeroot to behave for me, so I’ve just used sudo. I’m still working out the fakeroot permission issues. Anyway, I see the following from the config output:
checking for oracle… configure: WARNING: no

I was expecting a yes, but reading the configure script hasn’t convinced me I will. I am curious as to what other people see there…

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:38:12 +0000

Thanks for the mention, I’m glad you found it useful. I just updated the instructions for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and they can be found at http://www.pythian.com/news/4747/installing-tora-with-oracle-support-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala.

By: Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) | Pythian Group Blog

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:30:51 +0000

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By: Building TOra with Oracle support on Jaunty | A Stata Mind

Building TOra with Oracle support on Jaunty | A Stata Mind — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:59:17 +0000

[...] only get PostgreSQL support. For anything else you need to build TOra from source. Instructions are here, courtesy of Brad Hudson. Follow them. In particular, do not skip installing the prerequisite [...]

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:14:20 +0000

Colin. I tried installing the packages on 9.10 and it worked like a charm. It could be that there have been some changes to the rpm format and a newer version of alien fixed it. 9.10 uses rpm version 4.70, not sure about 9.04 as I have already updated all my boxes. The referenced code is a generic function to call external commands, and does not really lead to a cause for it without more stack trace.

Oddly there is no 11.2.0.1.0-1 rpm on the oracle site for x86_64. Only 11.1 packages. I assume they’ll come out soon.

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:42:30 +0000

Strange, I just re-downloaded them yesterday and I got 11.1.0.7.0-2. I’ll check into it. What version of Ubuntu are you using?

50% done the install doc for 9.10 x86_64, just need to do a bit more testing.

By: Colin Pickard

Colin Pickard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:27:24 +0000

The current version (11.2.0.1) does not seem to work with alien. It fails with this error:

Error executing “LANG=C rpm -qp –queryformat %{NAME} oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.1.0-1.i386.rpm”: at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 482.

11.1.0.7 worked fine with your instructions however. Thanks!