[Zope-DB] Oracle and Zope on Linux

[Matthew T. Kromer]

D.Rick Anderson wrote:

>Thanks for the reply. The drectory that it "should" be in is 
>/usr/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5/lib. unfortunatly it's not. I've set all the env variables 
>according to the Oracle install instructions. If I do a find -name libclntsh.so.8.0 from / it doesn't 
>find anything. I've walked up and down the directories hoping to find something similar to no 
>avail. I've even uninstalled Oracle, installed just the client, installed EVERYTHING and nothing 
>seems to work. Is there a client for download that includes this file?  Are there going to be other 
>files like this one that give me a problem?
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Rick
>

It sounds like when you did the install, you only installed the Oracle 
server, not the oracle client.  Can you go back into the installer to 
install the client?  Normally, when you get the server you should have 
gotten the client too, but maybe the installer failed.