Installing Oracle Instant Client for Development on Linux

How to install Oracle Instant Client on Linux for development with C based applications – this applies to popular scripting languages such as Ruby, Node.js, Python, PHP, Perl and R. Instant Client allows the Oracle Database drivers and adapters for these languages to connect to a remote or local Oracle database.

The first two minutes give an overview of Instant Client. After that, installation is demonstrated.

Instant Client is available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html

To get help, post to an appropriate user forum on Oracle Technology Network: https://community.oracle.com/welcome

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