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How to Install the OCI CLI on Oracle Solaris

Dave Miner
Sr. Principal Software Engineer

Following on to my previous posts on using Oracle Solaris with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)...

All modern clouds provide a fancy browser console that lets you easily manage any of your cloud resources.  For power users, though, the browser console is often the slowest way to get things done.  Plus, if you're trying to leverage the cloud as part of other automation, which has often been written as traditional Unix shell scripts,you may need a command line interface (CLI),

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a comprehensive CLI, the oci command, written in Python as is true of many recent system tools.  The CLI and the underlying Python SDK are very portable, but have some dependencies on other Python modules at particular versions, so can be somewhat complex to install on any particular OS platform.  Fortunately, Python has a powerful module known as virtualenv that makes it fairly simple to install and run a Python application and its dependencies in isolation from other Python programs that may have conflicting requirements.  This is especially an issue with modern enterprise operating systems such as Solaris, which use Python for system tools and don't necessarily update all of their modules as quickly as the cloud SDK's require.  OCI makes use of virtualenv to provide an easy installation setup for any Unix-like operating system, including Solaris 11.4.  There are just a couple of extra things we need to do in order for it to work on Solaris.  The first thing to know is whether you're installing on a recent Solaris 11.4 SRU with Python 3.7 installed, as the process is slightly easier.  The easiest way to find this out is with the pkg mediator command, like so:

# pkg mediator python3
MEDIATOR     VER. SRC. VERSION IMPL. SRC. IMPLEMENTATION
python3      system    3.7     system

If the output doesn't show 3.7, you can try installing it with pkg install runtime/python-37 but most likely this will require you to update to a more recent SRU, as normally Python 3.7 will be installed by default.  If you can't do that, then follow the 11.4 GA Instructions section.

11.4 SRU Instructions

  1. Ensure developer components are installed: pkg change-facet facet.devel=true
  2. Install the compiler, system headers, pkg-config tool: pkg install gcc system/header developer/build/pkg-config
  3. Set the correct pkgconfig path in your environment: export  PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/64/pkgconfig
  4. Set the correct include path in your environment: export CFLAGS=$(pkg-config --cflags libffi)
  5. Now follow the installation instructions from the OCI CLI documentation

11.4 GA Instructions

  1. Install Oracle Developer Studio's C compiler - any recent version should do, I've tested 12.4, 12.5 and 12.6.  Once you've obtained credentials for the package repository and configured the solarisstudio publisher, the command is simply pkg install --accept developer/developerstudio-126/cc
  2. Ensure the C compiler command is in your path: PATH=$PATH:/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin
  3. Install the system headers and pkg-config tool. pkg install system/header developer/build/pkg-config
  4. Set the correct include path in your environment: export CFLAGS=$(pkg-config --cflags libffi)
  5. Now follow the installation instructions from the OCI CLI documentation

Once you download and execute the basic install script, you'll have to answer several prompts regarding the installation locations for the OCI CLI components, after that it will download a series of dependencies, build and install them to the specified location, this takes just a couple of minutes. I've included a transcript of a session below so you can see what a successful runof the OCI install script looks like.  Happy CLI-ing!

{cli-114} bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/oci-cli/master/scripts/install/install.sh)"
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Downloading Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI install script from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/oci-cli/6dc61e3b5fd2781c5afff2decb532c24969fa6bf/scripts/install/install.py to /tmp/oci_cli_install_tmp__Xfw.
######################################################################### 100.0%
System version of Python must be either a Python 2 version >= 2.7.5 or a Python 3 version >= 3.5.0.
Running install script.
python /tmp/oci_cli_install_tmp__Xfw  < /dev/tty
-- Verifying Python version.
-- Python version 2.7.14 okay.

===> In what directory would you like to place the install? (leave blank to use '/home/dminer/lib/oracle-cli'): /export/oci/lib 
-- Install directory '/export/oci/lib' is not empty and may contain a previous installation.

===> Remove this directory? (y/N): y  
-- Deleted '/export/oci/lib'.
-- Creating directory '/export/oci/lib'.
-- We will install at '/export/oci/lib'.

===> In what directory would you like to place the 'oci' executable? (leave blank to use '/home/dminer/bin'): /export/oci/bin
-- The executable will be in '/export/oci/bin'.

===> In what directory would you like to place the OCI scripts? (leave blank to use '/home/dminer/bin/oci-cli-scripts'): /export/oci/bin/oci-cli-scripts
-- Creating directory '/export/oci/bin/oci-cli-scripts'.
-- The scripts will be in '/export/oci/bin/oci-cli-scripts'.
-- Downloading virtualenv package from https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/15.0.0.tar.gz.
-- Downloaded virtualenv package to /tmp/tmpGBgVu5/15.0.0.tar.gz.
-- Checksum of /tmp/tmpGBgVu5/15.0.0.tar.gz OK.
-- Extracting '/tmp/tmpGBgVu5/15.0.0.tar.gz' to '/tmp/tmpGBgVu5'.
-- Executing: ['/usr/bin/python', 'virtualenv.py', '--python', '/usr/bin/python', '/export/oci/lib']
Already using interpreter /usr/bin/python
New python executable in /export/oci/lib/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
-- Executing: ['/export/oci/lib/bin/pip', 'install', '--cache-dir', '/tmp/tmpGBgVu5', 'oci_cli', '--upgrade']
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.
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  Installing build dependencies ... done
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Collecting retrying==1.3.3 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting six==1.11.0 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting jmespath==0.9.3 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting httpsig-cffi==15.0.0 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting pyOpenSSL==18.0.0 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting oci==2.2.3 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting terminaltables==3.1.0 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting idna<2.7,>=2.5 (from oci_cli)
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Collecting enum34; python_version < "3" (from cryptography==2.4.2->oci_cli)
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Building wheels for collected packages: PyYAML, configparser, cx-Oracle, retrying, arrow, terminaltables, cffi, pycparser
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Successfully built PyYAML configparser cx-Oracle retrying arrow terminaltables cffi pycparser
Installing collected packages: PyYAML, configparser, six, python-dateutil, pytz, enum34, idna, pycparser, cffi, asn1crypto, ipaddress, cryptography, click, cx-Oracle, retrying, arrow, jmespath, certifi, httpsig-cffi, pyOpenSSL, oci, terminaltables, oci-cli
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===> Modify profile to update your $PATH and enable shell/tab completion now? (Y/n): n
-- If you change your mind, add 'source /export/oci/lib/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oci_cli/bin/oci_autocomplete.sh' to your rc file and restart your shell to enable tab completion.
-- You can run the CLI with '/export/oci/bin/oci'.
-- Installation successful.
-- Run the CLI with /export/oci/bin/oci --help

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