Installing oracle instant client 12.1 on Windows 8 with no previous Oracle Software

Hi all,
I want to install oracle client 12.1 on my 64bit windows 8 computer. Do i have to have an oracle software installed first?
I've downloaded all the packages from the oracle website ie, basic, odbc, jdbc, sqlplus and sdk
I have extracted them into one folder c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient. as told to do in the documentation
These are the actions I have taken as suggested by different forums which i have done;
- created a system variable OCI_LIB64 and set the value to c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient.
- created a system and user variable ORACLE_HOME and set the value to c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient.
- created a user variable TNS_ADMIN and set the value to c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient.
- create subfolders "\network\admin" in your 64-bit client folder and create sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora here ie c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient\network\admin
In another installation guide i found, i was told to double click a setup.exe and start the GUI which i didn't see after i extracted all the downloads
Please am missing something? do i have to install oracle database first? i really don't need that.

You do not have to install oracle database in order to install oracle client. But it won't do any good to install the client if you don't have a database to connect to -- somewhere. It's just that the database doesn't have to be in the same box as the client. In fact, it usually isn't.
You created a directory "c:\Program Files\OracleInstantClient\network\admin" to hold your tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files. But then you set tns_admin to point to some other directory. If you set tns_admin, you are telling the client THAT is where it should locate the tns config files.
Oracle sometimes doesn't like putting things in Windows folders that have embedded spaces in the folder name. I'd avoid it like the plague.

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GET
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REQUEST_URI
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ORIG_PATH_INFO
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200
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]
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_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]
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_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"]
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marcelb01v
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10.26.213.195
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80
_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]
10.45.112.152
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]
C:/htdocs
_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]
C:\htdocs\stuffs\test.php
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"]
51461
_SERVER["REDIRECT_URL"]
/stuffs/test.php
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]
CGI/1.1
_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]
HTTP/1.1
_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]
GET
_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]
no value
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
/stuffs/test.php
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]
/stuffs/test.php
_SERVER["ORIG_SCRIPT_FILENAME"]
C:/PHP/php-cgi.exe
_SERVER["ORIG_PATH_INFO"]
/stuffs/test.php
_SERVER["ORIG_PATH_TRANSLATED"]
C:\htdocs\stuffs\test.php
_SERVER["ORIG_SCRIPT_NAME"]
/php/php-cgi.exe
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]
/stuffs/test.php
_SERVER["REQUEST_TIME"]
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export SQLPATH
Sqlplus works fine, but when I try to use the utility exp/imp
exp DB_USER/DB_PW@DB_SCHEMA owner=DB_USER buffer=300000 LOG=DB_USER.log FILE=DB_USER.dmp compress=n
I have the following error:
No command 'exp' found, did you mean:
Command 'xep' from package 'pvm-examples' (universe)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim' (main)
Command 'ex' from package 'nvi' (universe)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-nox' (universe)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-gnome' (main)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-tiny' (main)
Command 'ex' from package 'vim-gtk' (universe)
Command 'axp' from package 'axp' (universe)
Command 'expr' from package 'coreutils' (main)
Command 'expn' from package 'sendmail-base' (universe)
Command 'epp' from package 'e16' (universe)
exp: command not found
(I cannot use data pump exp)
Any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
Lucia

root@laptop:~# /tmp/CVU_11.2.0.1.0_lucia/runfixup.sh
Response file being used is :/tmp/CVU_11.2.0.1.0_lucia/fixup.response
Enable file being used is :/tmp/CVU_11.2.0.1.0_lucia/fixup.enable
Log file location: /tmp/CVU_11.2.0.1.0_lucia/orarun.log
[: 845: true: unexpected operator
[: 860: unexpected operator
Any suggestions?
thanks
LuciaHello,
I had the same problem. It was related to the shell script interpreter being used: it is really a bash script asking to be interpreted as sh. For the impatient, the solution was to change the first line of the script orarun.sh to read as:
#!/bin/bash
Explanation:
1. The script runfixup.sh calls orarun.sh. The latter is the one that fails starting at line 845.
2. The script is really a bash script as can be seen from the if syntax used. For example at line 191 we see the double equall sign ==:
if [ "`echo $SET_KERNEL_PARAMETERS | tr A-Z a-z`" == "true" ]
3. The bash man page says:
string1 == string2
string1 = string2
True if the strings are equal. = should be used with the test command for POSIX conformance.
string1 != string2
True if the strings are not equal.
(End of man page excerpt)
Notice in particular that for a bash script to be POSIX it should avoid the == and just use =
4. orarun.sh has on its first line #!/bin/sh. On my Ubuntu system, sh is a softlink to dash and the dash man page says:
s1 = s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are identical.
s1 != s2 True if the strings s1 and s2 are not identical.
5. So this script script uses bash syntax but is interpreted by dash. It is possible that this worked fine for the Oracle developer if on their system sh was softlinked to bash (which is often the case). Apparently, one should then be very careful to not use idioms that are not POSIX compliant.
6. Another solution is to change the /bin/sh softlink from dash to bash. Personally, I was less comfortable doing this (the possible repercussions were wider than the proposed solution above).
After making the change, the script ran perfectly. I think the best solution is for Oracle to update the script to be POSIX compliant or to identify itself as bash.
Hope that helped,
Mark Gaber
Edited by: user1112514 on Jun 30, 2010 3:28 AM

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