A (destructive) method of installing oracle on a mac. This installs oracle to /opt/oracle/instantclient, and destroys any existing /opt/oracle/instantclient* folders. It also sets up the enviornment to use the newly installed oracle, however it does not set your .bash_profile up for the next time you need it. This script needs to be run from the…

InstallOracleMac

OLD_PWD=$(pwd)

echo "Installing Oracle.."
sudo rm -rf /opt/oracle/instantclient*
sudo mkdir -p /opt/oracle

sudo unzip instantclient-\*.zip -d /opt/oracle/

cd /opt/oracle
for FILE in /opt/oracle/instant*; do
	if [[ -d $FILE ]]; then 
		ORACLE_INST_FOLDER=$FILE 
	fi
done

echo "Found instant client in $ORACLE_INST_FOLDER"

sudo ln -s $ORACLE_INST_FOLDER /opt/oracle/instantclient

sudo find /opt/oracle/ -name "liblntsh.dynlib.*" -exec ln -s '{}' libclntsh.dynlib \; 
sudo find /opt/oracle/ -name "libocci.dylib.*" -exec ln -s '{}' libocci.dynlib \; 

# oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/instantclient
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME

echo "Done"
cd $OLD_PWD

update your .bash_profile

# oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/instantclient
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8
export TNS_ADMIN=$HOME/etc
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME