Set all of the following required environment variables
for your operating system on the target machine.
AIX® environment variables
All environment
variables must be capitalized.
Table 1. AIX environment
variables for Oracle databasesEnvironment Variable |
Value |
Conditions |
ORACLE_HOME |
Oracle client software installation directory |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
location where the Oracle client software is installed. |
LIBPATH |
$ORACLE_HOME/lib: INSTALLDIRECTORY/lib |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
Oracle client software installation directory, and where INSTALLDIRECTORY is
the location where the product will be installed. |
Linux® 32-bit environment variables
Table 2. Linux 32-bit environment variables for Oracle databasesEnvironment Variable |
Value |
Conditions |
ORACLE_HOME |
Oracle client software installation directory |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
location where the Oracle client software is installed. |
LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
$ORACLE_HOME/lib |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
Oracle client software installation directory. |
Linux 64-bit environment variables
Table 3. Linux 64-bit environment variables for Oracle databasesEnvironment Variable |
Value |
Conditions |
ORACLE_HOME |
Oracle client software installation directory |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
location where the Oracle client software is installed. |
LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
$ORACLE_HOME/lib |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
Oracle client software installation directory. |
Sun Solaris environment variables
Table 4. Sun
Solaris environment variables for Oracle databasesEnvironment Variable |
Value |
Conditions |
ORACLE_HOME |
Oracle client software installation directory |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
location where the Oracle client software is installed. |
LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
$ORACLE_HOME/lib |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
Oracle client software installation directory. |
HP-UX environment variables
Table 5. HP-UX
environment variables for Oracle databasesEnvironment Variable |
Value |
Conditions |
ORACLE_HOME |
Oracle client software installation directory |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
location where the Oracle client software is installed. |
LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
$ORACLE_HOME/lib |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
Oracle client software installation directory. |
Microsoft Windows environment
variables
You must use the Microsoft® Windows® 8.3 naming convention when setting
up environment variables in a Microsoft Windows environment. The environment variables
must not contain any spaces.
Table 6. Microsoft Windows environment variables for Oracle databasesEnvironment Variable |
Value |
Conditions |
ORACLE_HOME |
Oracle client software installation directory |
where ORACLE_HOME is the
location where the Oracle client software is installed. |