I'd take the time and effort to recompile. You'll need the oracle client libraries which are the time-consuming part if you have to build them on the box. I did this on a RHEL machine a couple of years back to test out a dev version of 1.75 and it worked fine, once I'd got all the dependencies to build Oracle. No reason not to go with the latest version (currently v1.80)

Bite the bullet!

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