Oracle8/Linux - sqlplus won't start

From: kev <kevin.porter_at_fast.no>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:08:10 +0100
Message-ID: <378F3CCA.C1EAD452@fast.no>

Hi,

I'm using Red Hat 6, and installed Oracle 8 using install instructions at
http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html. The patch has been applied.

When I try to run sqlplus by typing 'sqlplus' at the command prompt, I get the following error:

sqlplus: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to "/u01/app/oracle/product/release" if that's of any relevance.

How do I cure this problem?

My next question is, do I need to use sqlplus at all? I am backing an Oracle database (yet to be written) on to the web using PHP. I understand that I can just write my SQL scripts to create the tables, etc, in a .sql file and run it from inside svrmgrl using @<file>.sql, so why would I need sqlplus anyway?

Thanks in advance,

Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 09:08:10 CDT