oracle-instantclient-basic on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: June 23,2024

1. Install "oracle-instantclient-basic" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

b. Install oracle-instantclient-basic on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S oracle-instantclient-basic

* (Optional) Uninstall oracle-instantclient-basic on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns oracle-instantclient-basic

2. Manually Install "oracle-instantclient-basic" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:

$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

b. Clone oracle-instantclient-basic's git locally

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/oracle-instantclient-basic.git ~/oracle-instantclient-basic

c. Go to ~/oracle-instantclient-basic folder and install it

$ cd ~/oracle-instantclient-basic $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the oracle-instantclient-basic package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1298791
Name: oracle-instantclient-basic
PackageBaseID: 57813
PackageBase: oracle-instantclient-basic
Version: 21.11.0.0.0-1
Description: Light replacement for the Oracle client (files to run OCI, OCCI and JDBC-OCI programs)
URL: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/
NumVotes: 30
Popularity: 0.092207
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: Malvineous
Submitter: Malvineous
FirstSubmitted: 1332302293
LastModified: 1691118371
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/oracle-instantclient-basic.tar.gz

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions