oracle-instantclient<version>-basic-<version_full>.<arch>.rpm
oracle-instantclient<version>-sqlplus-<version_full>.<arch>.rpm
oracle-instantclient<version>-devel-<version_full>.<arch>.rpm
./etc/environment
then logoff/back in to reload the env):/etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient<version>-basic.conf
and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf
(for more recent versions, at least since 12.1) containing:-v
flag if you want some verbose): libaio1
.$ pip install cx_oracle
(linux only)$ sudo alien -i cx_Oracle-5.0-10g-py25-1.x86.rpm
python -c 'import cx_Oracle; print cx_Oracle'
should return the modules with its version.Collecting cx_Oracle Using cached cx_Oracle-5.2.1.tar.gz Building wheels for collected packages: cx-Oracle Running setup.py bdist_wheel for cx-Oracle ... done Stored in directory: C:Usersm315468AppDataLocalpipCachewheels7c5f96 cd273c9b675bc7c28ae249b74d1f7df5d3eacba9e918715225 Successfully built cx-Oracle Installing collected packages: cx-Oracle Successfully installed cx-Oracle-5.2.1