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Welcome, readers! It’s time for another update to our series of posts on installing Oracle on Ubuntu Linux. In this edition, we’ll be installing Oracle 11g R1 on Ubuntu 9.04, both 32-bit.

This time, I’ve used VirtualBox to run a virtual machine (VM) to perform our work. (Virtualization has a number of advantages; in this case, I made several trial installs, trying different combinations and configurations. Having a pristine, basic set-up accelerated the whole process, since I didn’t had to reinstall from scratch on every new attempt.)

You might want to review the previous editions of this series, as there are technical references on this text fully detailed on previous posts. See these HOWTOs for Ubuntu:

• 8.10 – Intrepid Ibex
• 8.04 – Hardy Heron
• 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon
• 7.04 – Feisty Fawn

Since we’re installing on a VM, we’ll be using Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit Server edition, , so let’s download it and check the MD5sum:

user@jackalope:/media/trezentos/downloads$ md5sum ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso
20480057590ff8b80ad9094f40698030  ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso
user@jackalope:/media/trezentos/downloads$

Download Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0), and verify the provided cksum:

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Hardware

My Dell desktop:

[root@erp RPMs]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
cpu MHz         : 2793.022
cache size      : 512 KB

[root@erp RPMs]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2073404 kB
...

Operating System

Download Centos Linux, and install the Linux operating system.

Kernel Version

Download kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.i686.rpm and apply with:

$ rpm -ivh  kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.i686.rpm 

The kernel should look like this:

root@erp RPMs]# uname -a
Linux erp.itskills.com 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Oct 5 15:04:03 CDT 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux

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Karun Dutt and I managed to get DBD::Oracle 1.21 to install on a 64-bit Linux OS against the Oracle 11 full client. Here’s what we did.

As root, we downloaded DBD::Oracle from CPAN.

# perl -MCPAN -eshell
cpan> get DBD::Oracle
...

We replaced the distribution makefile with: http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/Makefile.PL (this is the latest Makefile.PL).

# cd /root/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.21
# export ORACLE_HOME=<actual value of Oracle Home>
# export ORACLE_SID=<actual value of ORACLE_SID>
# export ORACLE_USERID=<a working ORACLE_USERID>
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$ORACLE_HOME
# perl Makefile.PL
...
# make
...
# make test
...
# make install
...

It works!

I have just managed to get DBD::Oracle to successfully compile, install, and test with the 11.1.0.6.0 Instant Client (IC) on a Linux (32bit) OS. It seems Oracle, in its wisdom, has changed the folder structure yet again, so to get it to compile, try this.

The table structure of the IC out of the RPMs is:

/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/ (Instant Client Package Basic)
/usr/share/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/ (SQL*Plus)
/usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/ (Instant Client – SDK)

So, doing the following . . .

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$PATH

perl Makefile.PL -m /usr/share/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/demo.mk -h /usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/

. . . will work.

I have also updated the Makefile.PL, which can be found here: http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/Makefile.PL.

Cheers, John Scoles.