first we take rpm packages from
oracle instant client downloads.
you need to download devel, basic, sqlplus packages.
we need alien to convert rpms to deb.
sudo apt-get install alien
convert them to deb packges;
alien oracle-instantclient11.2-basic_11.2.0.1.0-2_i386.rpm
alien oracle-instantclient11.2-devel_11.2.0.1.0-2_i386.rpm
alien oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus_11.2.0.1.0-2_i386.rpm

install new deb packages with sudo dpkg -i

download and install the libaio library
libaio, libao-dev
give this commands;

sudo echo "/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf
sudo ldconfig
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client
sudo "export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client" > ~/.bash_profile

take tora debian package from proturk

wget http://www.proturk.com/downloads/tora_2.1.1-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i tora_2.1.1-1_i386.deb

now you can run tora with /usr/local/tora/bin/tora command.

if it not works probably you dont have qtscintilla or qt4 libraries, install them with synaptic.

if you want to compile by yourself, here is the configure command;
./configure --with-instant-client=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client --with-oracle-includes=/usr/include/oracle/11.2/client --with-oracle-libraries=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib --with-oci-version=11G

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