Oracle client & Fedora 5

[Jim Cox]

> > > Has anyone been able to install a Oracle client on Fedora Core 4?
> > > I followed the instruction at
> > > http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2InstallationOnFedora5.php
> > > with no success.
> >
> > FWIW, I've had good luck with (what I think is called) the "Oracle
> > Instant Client" (from Oracle's web site) on x86_64. I only use it for
> > rudimentary scripts, though.
>
> Once I have the "Oracle Instant Client" installed how do I resolve
>
> ERROR:
> ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified
>
> when using sqlplus to connect to Oracle?

Again, my usage is pretty basic, but FWIW I use "connection strings"
like the following:

prompt$ sqlplus my_user/my_pass at db_host:1521/my_db