Linux System Requirements

The Simba Oracle ODBC Driver supports Oracle versions 11g, 12c, 18c, and 19c, as well as autonomous data sources.

Install the connector on client machines where the application is installed. Each client machine that you install the connector on must meet the following minimum system requirements:

One of the following distributions:
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 7
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12
270 MB of available disk space; 256 MB of RAM
One of the following ODBC driver managers installed:
- iODBC 3.52.9 or later
- unixODBC 2.2.14 or later

Note: These Linux distributions are officially supported by the Oracle Call Interface (OCI), which the Simba Oracle ODBC Driver uses as a dependency. Simba also tests the connector on other Linux distributions, but can only officially support the ones listed earlier in this topic.

To install the connector, you must have root access on the machine.

If you are using the RPM file to install the connector on Debian or Ubuntu, you must also have the alien utility installed. The alien utility is available on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/.

Before the connector can be used, Oracle Instant Client 19.3 (with the same bitness as the connector) must be installed in the /lib subfolder in the connector's installation directory. If you obtained the connector from the Simba website, then your installation of the connector automatically includes this dependency. Otherwise, you must install Oracle Instant Client manually. For detailed instructions, see Installing the Oracle Instant Client.