Installing Oracle Instant Client for Apple macOS ARM64 (M1/M2/M3)

In case you missed it, Oracle Instant Client is available for macOS ARM64. See the release announcement post by my colleague Sharad Chandran.

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I commonly install the ‘Basic’ package to give me the Oracle Client libraries needed for runtime by tools & Thick drivers, the ‘SQL*Plus’ package to give me a command line SQL query tool, and the ‘SDK’ package to give me header files (because I still build OCI-based programs like the PHP OCI8 driver):

curl -O https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/mac/instantclient/instantclient-basic-macos-arm64.dmg
curl -O https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/mac/instantclient/instantclient-sqlplus-macos-arm64.dmg
curl -O https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/mac/instantclient/instantclient-sdk-macos-arm64.dmg

hdiutil mount instantclient-basic-macos-arm64.dmg
hdiutil mount instantclient-sqlplus-macos-arm64.dmg
hdiutil mount instantclient-sdk-macos-arm64.dmg

/Volumes/instantclient-basic-macos*/install_ic.sh

hdiutil unmount /Volumes/instantclient-basic-*/
hdiutil unmount /Volumes/instantclient-sqlplus-*/
hdiutil unmount /Volumes/instantclient-sdk-*/

This installs into $HOME/Downloads/instantclient_23_3.

Check the download page for the latest links and other packages.