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Instant Client on Ubuntu WSL2

Savo MarovicJan 29 2021

Hi,

I succesfully did the setup of Oracle Client on Ubuntu but i have the following problem:
When instant client is version 12 i can connect without the problem to all DB's which are versions 12 and up.
When instant client is version 19 and up i can connect only to 12 version of DB. When i want to connect to version 19 i get the following error:
fadata@AFW-OARV2GFZ:~$ sqlplus user/pasword@TNSENTRY

SQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Fri Jan 29 18:23:26 2021
Version 19.10.0.0.0

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ERROR:
ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure

Enter user-name:
ERROR:
ORA-12162: TNS:net service name is incorrectly specified

The same error shows up with EZ connect string.
When i change instant client to version 12 i do not have this problem.
Regards,
Savo

This post has been answered by Billy Verreynne on Feb 1 2021
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