Oracle Client installation for Linux (Debian)

Add sources.list lines to include the repository

Add the following lines on /etc/apt/sources.list file:

###Paquets Oracle
	deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free

Launching Oracle Client installation

sudo apt-get update
	apt-get install oracle-xe-client

Environnement variables

  # Setup ORACLE variavles
  ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/client
  export ORACLE_HOME
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

Launching Oracle client

Oracle client can be launched via sqlplus command (like on Unix).