fedora 15, oracle 11, python3: can't find or open libclntsh.so.11.1

Question

I am trying to use cx_Oracle on Fedora 15 with Oracle 11.

I have install Oracle and InstantClient rpms and also cx_Oracle rpm for CentOS. I am exporting ORACLE_HOME and other like this:

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/xe
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export ORACLE_SID=XE

However, libclntsh.so.11.1 lies here:

/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1

I wonder, if that is not the problem. However Oracle was already installed in this u01 directory (I don't know what is it, on Ubuntu it installed in the right place). Could you suggest me, what I can do with this?

Answer 1

Finally found the answer! I didn't need to install again InstantClient, as the libclntsh.so.11.1 was already in the oracle installation. I needed to add another environment variable to .bashrc:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib