DURING INSTALLATION OF ORACLE LAUNCH SQLPLUS FAILS

DURING INSTALLATION OF ORACLE LAUNCH SQLPLUS FAILS

[oracle@~]$ sqlplus

-bash: sqlplus: command not found

Solution:

Go to ORACLE_HOME (Path oracle is installed)

[oracle@~]$ cd /opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/

[oracle@ dbhome_1]$ export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1

[oracle@dbhome_1]$ cd bin/

[oracle@ bin]$ ./sqlplus

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Tue Oct 11 20:53:19 2011

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To permanent  fix this add following entries into .bash_profile file at /home/oracle location.

ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
export ORACLE_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export PATH