Oracle Clients on Linux only

I just want to have the Oracle clients (sqlplus, sqlload, sql*net
etc) installed on a linux box. Where can I download them? I don't
want to download that huge whole server file.
Thanks!
dp
null

I've installed Oracle Client 8.1.7 on a Linux machine. I want to connect to a Database on a Oracle Server, which is installed on a Win NT machine.
During installation I gave the name, host, port(1521) of a database, which was promptly registerd in ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora file.
When I try connecting to the database, I get the TNS Error :
could not resolve service name
What is the problem? Even tnsping on the host gives a similar message :
Failed to resolve ......
Please help....thanx....
null can you do a ping (not tnsping) on your windows machine from Linux?
If you copy the same tnsnames.ora entry over to your windows machine and try connecting to your database
using Windows client (using this copied tnsnames.ora entry), can you connect sucessfully or you get the
same error message again?

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null

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RJiv wrote:
Hi,
I want to install oracle client on ubuntu linux. Which version of oracle client works on it All recent Oracle version support different Linux flavours
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