Oracle Instant Client libraries wouldn't install

Correction - file name I used is instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4.0-macosx-x64.zip, the OS X file (I by mistake put Linux file name into my posting, sorry!)

Ok - I ran an ugly hack (similar to what I did with Linux) and manually moved files to locations which Oracle considers default and which do not require environmental variables, as follows:

When in the directory where Oracle client files were unzipped, run these commands:

cp sdk/include/*.h /usr/include
cp sqlplus /usr/bin
cp lib /usr/lib

Also, to be able to install OCI8 PHP module, following symbolic link will need to be created:

A symbolic link will need to be created as follows:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libclntsh.dylib.10.1 libclntsh.dylib

I then installed oci8 for PHP and DBD::oracle for Perl and ran some test files, they work. However, if somebody knows why libraries didn't install with the command, as manual instructs, please answer! Thanks in advance! 🙂

Correction for the above - asterisks disappeared when I pasted commands.

Should read as follows:

cp lib /usr/lib

Sorry!