If you are used to selling pieces of your soul, taking time to let some free software talk with the enemy, you could find it useful to read how I get Oracle support in Tora on Edgy.
I followed what is described here (it is written in Italian but I’m sure you can understand the main steps) but I got some errors compiling Tora like
tothread.cpp:190: error: ‘toThreadStartWrapper’ was not declared in this scope
so reading this Japanese forum (I cannot read Japanese so I just got the idea of the post) I crossed my fingers, wrote this tothread.cpp patch and the compile errors disappeared.
Last update: 2008-07-08
[...] from some of my other posts, I’m not such a big fan of the linux database applications. Tora is probably about the best option, but doesn’t support Oracle (or mysql!) by default, and at [...]