Installing cx_Oracle (python 2.7) on ubuntu 64 bit

I use non-unicode version.

1. wget -c http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cx-oracle/cx_Oracle-5.1.2-11g-py27-1.x86_64.rpm

Convert rpm to deb

2. sudo alien -d cx_Oracle-5.1.2-11g-py27-1.x86_64.rpm

Install the deb

3. sudo dpkg -i cx_Oracle-5.1.2-2_amd64.deb

4. The Most important :

cd /usr/lib/python2.7

sudo mv site-packages/cx_Oracle* dist-packages/

sudo rmdir site-packages/

sudo ln -s dist-packages site-packages

sudo ldconfig

 

5. Check import cx_Oracle

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