Why do I get error "[unixODBC][Easysoft][Oracle]Could not open libclntsh.so.8.0 or libclntsh.so.9.0 error: ELFCLASS64"?

Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver

Why do I get error "[unixODBC][Easysoft][Oracle]Could not open libclntsh.so.8.0 or libclntsh.so.9.0 error: ELFCLASS64"?

Article :	00738
Last Reviewed :	14th February 2006
Revision :	1

The reason for this is usually because the Oracle client libraries installed on your machine are 64-bit. If this is the case, you should have a directory named lib32 in ORACLE_HOME. What you need to do is to rename the lib32 directory to lib (obviously rename your existing lib directory first).

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- Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver

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Easysoft ODBC-Oracle Driver

Why do I get error "[unixODBC][Easysoft][Oracle]Could not open libclntsh.so.8.0 or libclntsh.so.9.0 error: ELFCLASS64"?

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