Oracle client Linux Installation

Client installation

Add the following lines, to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list file
  ###Oracle packages
  deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free
 
Launch Oracle client installation:
  sudo apt-get update
  apt-get install oracle-xe-client
 
The Oracle client will be installed to /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/client folder.

Environnement variables

# ORACLE variables
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