Wine + PL/SQL Developer + Ubuntu

Ricardo Monteiro · Post by **Ricardo Monteiro** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:46 am

Hi

I´m starting with linux and wine, but I need use PL/SQL Developer in the Ubuntu environment. I´m using PL/SQL Developer 7.0.0.150, Oracle 10g and Ubuntu 8.04.
I would like some help to make it works. The software loads but don´t connect to a database. Sometimes, show an error about OCI.dll not present. How do I solve this? How I configure wine to do this.

Tks a lot
Ricardo

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:13 am

Ricardo Monteiro wrote:The software loads but don´t connect to a database. Sometimes, show an error about OCI.dll not present.

Did you installed Oracle drivers?

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:16 pm

Ricardo Monteiro wrote:

Hi

I´m starting with linux and wine, but I need use PL/SQL Developer in the Ubuntu environment. I´m using PL/SQL Developer 7.0.0.150, Oracle 10g and Ubuntu 8.04.
I would like some help to make it works. The software loads but don´t connect to a database. Sometimes, show an error about OCI.dll not present. How do I solve this? How I configure wine to do this.

This may be harder than we think. You have to install the Windows
version of the Oracle 10g client which requires Java 5 as a minimum. If
I remember correctly Java 5 has installation problems of its own. Check
the Applications Database for workarounds and hints for installing Java 5.

Java version 1.5 == Java 5
Java 6 may or may not work with the Oracle Client for 10g Enterprise.

James McKenzie

mcf · Post by **mcf** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:22 am

Revieing an old topic, the original poster's issue is not a WINE issue, but a missing prerequisite of the program. From http://www.allroundautomations.nl/plsqldev.html (emphasis mine):

System requirements
PL/SQL Developer will run on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The supported Oracle Server versions are 7.x, 8.x, 8i, 9i, 10g and 11g on any platform. To connect to an Oracle database, PL/SQL Developer requires a 32-bit SQL*Net, Net 8, Net 9, Net 10 or Net 11 version.

A SQL*Net client can be downloaded free of charge from www.oracle.com; search for "Oracle Instant Client". It's a straight zip file and java is not required.