Hello,
While trying to install DBD-oracle on my linux, I found these instructions in the readme file:

I simply installed SQL*Net ($ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/*) and the OCI libraries which are in $ORACLE_HOME/lib. You'll also need the header files from $ORACLE_HOME/sqllib/public/*.h and $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/*.h (you won't need them all, but you can get rid of them after DBD::Oracle compiles).

[You'll probably need at least ocommon in addition to network. But if you use the Oracle installer (as you always should) it'll probably install ocommon for you.]

So just put that stuff on your client box and install DBI and DBD::Oracle there. Once DBD::Oracle is installed you can remove the OCI libraries and headers (make sure to keep SQL*Net!) The main thing is to have a good tnsnames.ora file in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

I don't understand all the things that contain "$ORACLE_HOME" Is this some sort of file or directory that is already currently on the computer or is it some type of command. I don't have ORACLE on Linux, but I need to access an Oracle database. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

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In reply to ORACLE HOME ENVIRONMENT by nguye103

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