Michael McGuire <michael_at_mrmsoft.com> wrote in
news:pan.2005.07.31.16.57.59.395674_at_mrmsoft.com:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:45:02 +0100, star69 wrote:
>
>> Hello, I've downloaded from oracle.com this software to connect with
>> a Oracle server from my university:
> --- snip - snip - snip
>> But when I run sqlplus I get:
>>
>> sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so:
>> cannot
>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> I tried to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the directory, I also add that
>> directory to PATH, but I've got the same error. I'm using Ubuntu
>> Linux. Any idea?
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>
> The libraries are owned by oracle:oinstall. I made my user a member of
> the oinstall group and was able to invoke sqlplus. This isn't the
> correct approach but it allowed me to continue on. I'm still looking
> for the correct answer in the docs.
>
I suspect that root.sh was NOT run after the installation;
which changes the protection masks on key files in the oracle tree.
Received on Sun Jul 31 2005 - 13:12:33 CDT
