In this post, we will explore the powerful encryption specification known as the Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS), originally created by Clemens Fruhwirth in 2004. LUKS is designed to secure block devices, making it suitable for encrypting various filesystems, even including swap partitions. We’ll delve into how you can leverage LUKS to enhance the security of your Oracle Linux distribution, which has been distributed by Oracle since late 2006. Discover the key benefits and steps to encrypting your drives with LUKS on Oracle Linux in this post. Encryption is a…
Category: Oracle Linux
Oracle Database 19c doesn’t support OL6 – /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14′ not
One of the pre-requisite before installing any database software is to check if the platform that you are going to install your database in is supported by that platform. For instance, if you are going to install Oracle database on Linux, it is recommended to check the “Database Installation Guide for Linux” and check the operating system checklist. On April 25th 2019, Oracle database 19c became available to downloaded from Oracle.com. Regardless of the new features, software libraries and so on one difference from the previous release made me think…
Connecting to Oracle Database using cx_Oracle module 7 for Python
In this post I will simply show how to connect to an Oracle database using Python 3 in an Oracle Linux 7.6 OS. One of the things that you have to do is to install Python in your OS. By default, Oracle Linux 7.6 comes with Python 7.6 but from 7.7 ownwards it comes with the version Python 3. If you wish to install the Python 3 in your system I do recommend you to take a look at one of my blog posts about this topic: “Installing Python 3…
Installing Python 3 on Oracle Linux 7.6
There are several ways to install python 3 on Oracle Linux 7 systems. You can either perform an installation using an EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository or the Software Collection Library (SCL) which requires that you perform other types of commands. However, on this post I am going to install from the the Oracle Linux 7 latest repository which is also another method besides the two previously mentioned. Also the OS will be an Oracle Linux 7.6 that comes installed by default, the version 2.7 of Python is…