Comments on: Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:46:27 +0000

Hi!, thanx for the tutorial, really helpful. I just installed oracle 11G (11.1.0.6) enterprise for my ubuntu virtualbox, everything is fine there, now I wanted my old pal tora up with me again, and follow your steps here BUT as it’s the same machine, I made the assumption that I didn’t need to install the client as the oci.h is on $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/public so I just point the ln there, plus the TNS_ADMIN is pointed to network/admin. It seems everything was fine, until it throw this error at the end of the fakeroot process:

dh_shlibdeps -ptora
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 (used by debian/tora/usr/bin/tora).
dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps returned exit code 2
make: *** [binary-predeb-IMPL/tora] Error 1

I checked that path and found that file “libclntsh.so.11.1″ is there… so what just happened?

Any help is welcome man, I don’t want to dl the client just for that, plus don’t wanna switch to that sqldeveloper or jdeveloper or any related. Thnx in advance.

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:41:22 +0000

Hi Jose. As noted in preface and Environment sections, there is no ‘./configure’ line for 9.10 thus it does not need to be changed.

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:39:00 +0000

Did the libstdc++6 not work for you? I did not, and still do not, have libstdc++5 installed on my system.

This may be one of the libraries that I had installed for something else unrelated and did not notice it was needed for this. I’ll keep it in mind when I do my 10.04 post in a couple of weeks. (I’ve been running the alphas for a while, it’s quite nice).

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:35:49 +0000

Hi Richard. Did you try the 11.1 Oracle package? This helped with a different issue for Paul. I would also reinstall the .deb package you built in case an update clobbered it.

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:33:50 +0000

Hey Paul. My guess would be that your sources are incomplete. Can you try download/extracting them again?

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:16:13 +0000

Hi Diego. I would check your library paths. The library you want should actually be

/usr/lib/libqscintilla2.so.5

For some reason yours is expected to be in /lib which is incorrect from what I see on my own system.

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:14:19 +0000

Hi Prabhu. I noticed that you have 2 different versions of Oracle installed based on the output of your locate command.

/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/rdbms/public/oci.h
/usr/include/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/oci.h

Using the same oci.h as your oracle versions is imperative. Oracle versions do not play well with each other when linking programs.

Did you see any errors in the configure/compile process that would lead you to believe it did not find, or found the wrong, oci.h?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:10:41 +0000

Great article,

Your work was enormously helpful I built TOra with Oracle client 10.2. I wrote about my experiences here:

http://crisppacketdatacentre.blogspot.com/2010/02/building-tora-with-oracle-support-on.html

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:36:28 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I have the same problem that #13 : “I only have MySQL as an option in the drop down”. In addition, in debian/rules doesn’t appear the line “./configure …”. Although, config params appear in file: config.status (located in tora source folder). And apparently, these params are correct.

Thanks.

By: Lorenzo Eccher

Lorenzo Eccher — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:43:42 +0000

Hi, very useful, tnx.
I follow your HOW TO to install tora on a x64 for oracle client 10.2.
I had to install the libstdc++5 not included in karmic koala so I downloaded it from http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/amd64/libstdc++5/download. It was needed while compiling tora and used by oci 10.2

If you wanna improve your post with 10.2 oracle client. Tnx