Re: Tora doesn't work / Alternatives

From: Markus Seme <markus.seme_at_aon.at>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:13:06 +0200
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"Tim Cross" <tcross_at_nospam.une.edu.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:87lm5k9qhn.fsf_at_blind-bat.une.edu.au...
> Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> writes:
>
> > Markus Seme wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I would like access to a oracle database from a linux-box , so i tried
to
> > > use TORA ( v.1.2.0 and v.1.2.4 ).
>
> I could not get the pre-built versions of Tora to connect to Oracle
> 77.3.4 or 8.1.7 from my linux Debian box. However, I got the sources
> and did my own build and it now works fine. Since you say you can
> connect from sqlplus and you have installed the client libraries, I
> would recommend building Tora fromt he sources - it is very easy. You
> may need to download some of the graphics libraries and install them
> to get the build to work, but thats pretty easy (at least under Debian
> it is). Just follow the simple instructions in the docs - building
> from source is very simple for Tora. From memory, I think you just
> need to run a configure script, do a make and then a make install.
>
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> find / -iname microsoft -exec rm -rf {} \;

Thanky you for your detailed answer. I've built the Tora-Sources many times but it also doesn't work.

Do you know any alternative software for linux ?

markus Received on Tue Oct 01 2002 - 10:13:06 CEST

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