Installing TOra with Oracle Support on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Good morning folks and welcome to chapter 3 in the ongoing saga of TOra and Oracle support for Ubuntu. In this edition we’re faced with a new Ubuntu, new TOra 2.0, and new and exciting adventures, all of which I have stripped out so you can get this up and running quickly.
All in all, the build process turned out to be simpler than it had on previous versions all thanks to a much smarter build system. The scripts that debian-ize the packages are much more robust and also much more complex at first glance. There was no configure line to change in this one, it’s smart enough to pick up all the elements you need provided they are where the build expects them to be. One such item is the Oracle include path, which I will say more about shortly. Enough snappy patter, let’s get on with . . .
