B Deinstallation and Reinstallation

This appendix guides you through the deinstallation and reinstallation process for Forms and Reports Services.

Note: Forms and Reports Services is a flexible product that you can start and stop in different ways, depending on your requirements. Before you either deinstall or reinstall the product, see the Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide for more information on stopping all related services or processes.

This appendix contains the following topics:

• Deinstallation of Forms and Reports Services Instances

• Reinstallation

B.1 Deinstallation of Forms and Reports Services Instances

To deinstall Forms and Reports Services instances, you have to completely remove the items listed in Table B-1.

Table B-1 Items to Deinstall

Item to Clean Up	Tool to Use
Files from the Oracle home directory	Installer If the installer does not remove all the files, you can remove the remaining files using the rm command.
Entries for the deleted instance in the Inventory directory	Installer
Instance name from Farm page	Installer
Entries for the deleted instance in the /etc directory	Installer

See the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide for more information on deinstallation of components.

B.2 Reinstallation

The installer does not allow reinstallation of an Forms and Reports Services instance in a directory that already contains a Forms and Reports Services instance. To reinstall Forms and Reports Services in the same directory, deinstall Forms and Reports Services and then install it again.