Comments on: tora with oracle on debian

By: ludoa

ludoa — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:19:57 +0000

Glad to hear that, Mark.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:12:30 +0000

The includes from the xe packages are in /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracles/product/10.2.0/server/rdbms/public

Works ok here

Mark

By: ludoa

ludoa — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:25:47 +0000

You’re right about –with-kde versus –without-kde. I created –with-kde packages as well now. They’re available from http://rootshell.be/~ludoa/tora-with-oracle.html.

By: ludoa

ludoa — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:05:36 +0000

An annoyance which comes up after you’ve installed the .deb package, is that ‘apt-get upgrade’ wants to install Debian’s version of TOra. For those who don’t know, you can simply put this package on hold, like so:
echo tora hold | dpkg --set-selections
To remove the hold should you want to:
echo tora install | dpkg --set-selections

By: ludoa

ludoa — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:59:14 +0000

Hi Ivo, thanks for your feedback.

About your first point, where do you specify the includes should ook then? Just /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/lib ? It doesn’t contain the SDK stuff though… Aren’t they needed?

Copy pasting what exactly? Results from e.g. select statements etc? Glad to hear that –with-kde does work, now that I have everything setup either way, I guess I’ll have a try at getting it to work. When I was building it, I really didn’t want to spend any more time on it

Very weird that you have tnsnames.ora in another dir, as I don’t have it in /etc and it works perfectly.

By: Ivo List

Ivo List — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:40:29 +0000

Compiled tora myself and noticed a few problems with the above explanation.

* you don’t need to download oracle instantclient two times, it works with the client & headerfiles and libraries you get from above debian repository
* it works with –with-kde option, without it copy&paste doesn’t work
* if you don’t download the server, you’ll need sqlnet.ora besides tnsnames.ora (you can find the contents on google)
* by default tnsnames.ora is in /etc not /etc/oracle

By: Sql Blog Digest - tora with oracle on debian

Sql Blog Digest - tora with oracle on debian — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:08:58 +0000

[...] Why you would want this: because Oracle’s SQLplus is ridiculous on GNU/Linux, and SQL Developer (the only decent alternative I’m aware of, besides TOra) uses Java, which makes it “sluggish” on my system to say the least. There’s also Andi Albrecht’s CrunchyFrog which looked *extremely* promising, but Oracle currently isn’t supported in the latest version (because of a rewrite). I hope the developer’s still working on i … Thanks alot.Link to original article [...]