Oracle environment variables

Set all of the following required environment variables for your operating system on the target machine.

Note: You must ensure these environment variable values prepend any existing entries of the same environment variables.

All environment variables must be capitalized.

AIX® environment variables

Table 1. AIX environment variables for Oracle databases
Environment Variable	Value	Conditions
`ORACLE_HOME`	Oracle client software installation directory	where `ORACLE_HOME` is the location where the Oracle client software is installed.
`LIBPATH`	$`ORACLE_HOME`/lib:`<product install directory>`/lib	where `ORACLE_HOME` is the Oracle client software installation directory, and where `<product_install_directory>` is the location where the product will be installed.

Linux 64-bit environment variables

Table 2. Linux 64-bit environment variables for Oracle databases
Environment Variable	Value	Conditions
`ORACLE_HOME`	Oracle client software installation directory	where `ORACLE_HOME` is the location where the Oracle client software is installed.
`LD_LIBRARY_PATH`	$`ORACLE_HOME`/lib:`<product install directory>`/lib	where `ORACLE_HOME` is the Oracle client software installation directory, and where `<product_install_directory>` is the location where the product will be installed.

Microsoft Windows environment variables

You must use the Microsoft Windows 8.3 naming convention when setting up environment variables in a Microsoft Windows environment. The environment variables must not contain any spaces.

Table 3. Microsoft Windows environment variables for Oracle databases
Environment Variable	Value	Conditions
`ORACLE_HOME`	Oracle client software installation directory	where `ORACLE_HOME` is the location where the Oracle client software is installed.