Linux

We have talked about install Oracle in 10.1o long time ago : Ubuntu 10.10 开发环境配置 （五）Install Database 

After these years, there’s some change. First, Oracle changed the download website structure, you have to go HERE now.

And Oracle didn’t provide installer for non-rpm environment. I don’t want to configure these stuff by my self. So in Ubuntu you can use ALIEN to install RPM packages.

alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file formats. If you want to use a package from another linux distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it. It also supports LSB packages.

First, you have to install alien

	sudo apt-get install alien

Then just install the RPM like

	sudo alien -i oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.5-1.i386.rpm

That’s really easy and  wonderful ~ Infact, using “-i” alien first convert .rpm to .deb file. You can do it manually by

	sudo alien -k oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.5-1.i386.rpm

and then install deb file:

	sudo dpkg -i oracle-instantclient-basic_10.2.0.5-1_i386.deb

MacOS

brew install rpm

When using in Eclipse may encounter error, caused by incorrect link, fix with:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/rpm/4.14.0/bin/rpmbuild /usr/bin/rpmbuild