ADOP Prepare Fails With ‘error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.10.1’ Error

ERROR

afcpctx.sh started at Thu Feb 01 15:54:10 CDT 2022
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Uploading Metadata file $AD_TOP/12.0.0/admin/template/adctxinf.tmp
Metadata file $AD_TOP/12.0.0/admin/template/adctxinf.tmp upload failed.
Check log file created by FNDCPUCF program.
ERRORCODE = 127 ERRORCODE_END
.end std out.
FNDCPUCF: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.10.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
FNDCPUCF: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.10.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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[PROFILE PHASE]
AutoConfig could not successfully execute the following scripts:
Directory: $INST_TOP/admin/install
afcpctx.sh INSTE8_PRF 127

AutoConfig is exiting with status 1st

steps

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Running the Prepare phase.

CAUSE
The compat-libstdc++ RPM was not installed on this OEL7 operating system.