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I would like to install Oracle Instant Client on a Ubuntu 64 bit machine.

Following this link, I have installed the rpm packages basic, development and sqlplus using alien.

Then:

sqlplus  username/password@//dbhost:1521/SID
sqlplus: command not found

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64
ls $ORACLE_HOME
bin  lib

sqlplus
sqlplus: command not found

I have tried the python script in this link, but this did not work. It conflicts with the installed 12.1 packages as it tries to install 11.2.

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Easily solved:

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Stick those lines in your ~/.bash_profile if you want them to persist for a given user, or in /etc/bashrc to persist for all users.

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  • Thanks Phil - it worked. Stuck it into ~/.bashrc. [/etc contained only bash.bashrc].
    – Henk
    Commented Jun 4, 2014 at 13:14
  • +1 for helping users to use oracle db even on distributions which are considered "unsupported" by the company.
    – peterh
    Commented Jun 12, 2014 at 13:27
  • @Peter -1 for appearing to have an attitude problem towards me
    – Philᵀᴹ
    Commented Jun 12, 2014 at 13:30
  • @Phil Is it possible for me to contact you privately?
    – peterh
    Commented Jun 12, 2014 at 16:25

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