On 2002-06-13 13:48:58 -0700, Philip Daggett wrote: > Is there a way for a Redhat Linux box to connect to an Oracle Server > without having to install Oracle Client? Is there some other DBD module > which will do this? Installing Oracle Client is starting to become a big > pain in the butt. > > My computer has Redhat 7.3 and the Oracle server that I want to connect to > is running Oracle 11i. Any suggestions??
Haven't done that yet, either, but with a dozen or so linux machines I
think it would start to become worth the effort:
Make an RPM for oracle-client:
Either: write a spec file which invokes the oracle installer (I think
the installer can be invoked in batch mode, but it isn't too bad if you
have to build the RPM interactively).
Or: write a spec file which doesn't really install anything but only
gathers up the files which were already installed before.
In both cases include customized config files in the RPM.
You probably don't want to include the complete CD set in the source RPM
:-).
Then distribute the binary RPMs to all machines.
hp
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