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I use Squeeze, the version of Debian currently in development, soon to be declared stable by the Debian release team. The instructions here are very specific, so look elsewhere for something more generic guide.

downloads:

• Get registered on Oracle website, and download oracle-instantclient11.2-basic*.rpm (~40MB).
• Get cx-Oracle rpm for your specific Python version and your specific processor (in my case, 3.1 and i386 respectively).

installation and setup:

sudo apt-get install libpython3.1 libaio1 alien
sudo alien --install oracle-instantclient11.2-basic*rpm cx_Oracle*rpm
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3.1/site-packages/cx_Oracle.so /usr/lib/python3.1/lib-dynload
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/libnnz11.so /usr/lib
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 /usr/lib
echo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
python3 -c 'import cx_Oracle'

If that last line executes without printing a message to the screen, the install is most likely successful.