Installing Oracle Instant Client Basic Light on Linux for ARM (aarch64)
Learn how to install Oracle Instant Client Basic Light on Linux for ARM (aarch64).
- About Oracle Instant Client Basic Light
The size of the Instant Client Basic Light library is smaller than Oracle Instant Client. This is because Instant Client Basic Light contains only English language error message files and only a few supported character set definitions out of around 250. - Globalization Settings for Oracle Instant Client Basic Light
Learn about the character sets supported by Oracle Instant Client Basic Light. - Installing Oracle Instant Client Basic Light Packages on Linux for ARM (aarch64)
Learn how to install Oracle Instant Client Basic Light by downloading zip files, RPM files, or by using the package repository.
About Oracle Instant Client Basic Light
The size of the Instant Client Basic Light library is smaller than Oracle Instant Client. This is because Instant Client Basic Light contains only English language error message files and only a few supported character set definitions out of around 250.
The Instant Client Basic Light version is geared toward applications that use either Unicode, ASCII, and Western European character set support. There is no restriction on the LANGUAGE and the TERRITORY fields of the NLS_LANG setting, hence, Instant Client Basic Light operates with any language and territory settings. Only English error messages are provided with Instant Client Basic Light, hence, error messages generated by the client, such as Net connection errors, are always reported in English, even if you set NLS_LANG to a language other than AMERICAN. Error messages generated by the database server, such as SQL statement syntax errors, are generated in the selected language provided that you install the appropriate translated message files in the Oracle home of the database instance.
Globalization Settings for Oracle Instant Client Basic Light
Learn about the character sets supported by Oracle Instant Client Basic Light.
Oracle Instant Client Basic Light supports the following client character sets:
Single-byte
- US7ASCII
- WE8DEC
- WE8MSWIN1252
- WE8ISO8859P1
Unicode
- UTF8
- AL16UTF16
- AL32UTF8
Oracle Instant Client Basic Light can connect to databases having one of these database character sets:
- US7ASCII
- WE8DEC
- WE8MSWIN1252
- WE8ISO8859P1
- WE8EBCDIC37C
- WE8EBCDIC1047
- UTF8
- AL32UTF8
Oracle Instant Client Basic Light returns an error if any other character set is used as the client or database character set. Oracle Instant Client Basic Light can also operate with the OCI Environment handles created in the OCI_UTF16 mode.
Installing Oracle Instant Client Basic Light Packages on Linux for ARM (aarch64)
Learn how to install Oracle Instant Client Basic Light by downloading zip files, RPM files, or by using the package repository.
Installing Oracle Instant Client Basic Light Using Zip Files
To download and use zip files to install Oracle Instant Client Basic Light, follow the instructions in Installing Oracle Instant Client Using Zip Files on Linux for ARM (aarch64). However, for Oracle Linux 7 unzip the file instantclient-basiclite-linux.arm64-19.10.0.0.0dbru.zip instead of instantclient-basic-linux.arm64-19.10.0.0.0dbru.zip.
For Oracle Linux 8 unzip the file instantclient-basiclite-linux.arm64-19.19.0.0.0dbru.zip instead of instantclient-basic-linux.arm64-19.19.0.0.0dbru.zip.
Installing Oracle Instant Client Basic Light Using RPMs
To install Oracle Instant Client Basic Light using RPMs, follow the instructions in Installing Oracle Instant Client Using RPMs on Linux for ARM (aarch64). However, use the basiclite packages instead of basic.
All installations require a Basic or Basic Light package. All other packages are optional.
Note:
To install other packages like SQL*Plus, install the Oracle Instant Client Basic package.