Re: How to Install Oracle 12 Client in Existing Oracle Home

Why do you need the client in the same home as the database? What is the problem you are trying to solve?. They should and you want them to be separate.

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:37 AM Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott!
>
> You can use instant client and install it wherever you want. I use instant
> client for SQL*Developer, both GUI and SQLcl, sqlplus and TOra tool that I
> use.
>
> Regards
> On 5/8/19 9:59 AM, Scott Canaan wrote:
>
> We have an application that needs to have the Oracle client installed in
> the same Oracle Home as the database software. Somehow, I managed to do it
> with Oracle 12.1.0.2, but the client installer for Oracle 12.2.0.1 won’t
> let me. It says there’s already Oracle software in that home and won’t let
> me move on.
>
>
>
> How do I do this?
>
>
>
> This is Oracle 12.2.0.1 on Red Hat 7 Linux.
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