Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Posted by Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead on Sep 4, 2009
Considering my recent update to Ubuntu 9.10, I decided to have another go at getting TOra up and running. This time I am tackling a 64-bit system rather than the 32-bit “Hardy Heron” I had done previously.
On my way, I found some odd issues that I will describe here. All in all, it was a good few hours of cobbling together the pieces I needed to proudly present to you . . .
Installing TOra with Oracle support on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Conventions and Caveats
- I use
sudofor everything because logging in to root shells is just bad practice. - I plug vi whenever possible, because vi is the greatest (and to annoy emacs people).
- I did this all in a KDE desktop, which means that some things I say may sound like I use KDE. Commands issued are in pre-formatted text without any prompt gunk in front of them, so cut and paste to your heart’s content.
- Output is also in pre-formatted text and I use it sparingly where relevant. Apt likes to output lots of text. I think it’s lonely.
- Some instructions are pasted from the original so you will not need to refer to my last howto to get this working. For an all-new jocular experience, no attempts at humour were recycled.
- When I say “dep”, I actually mean dependancy.
