Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions
• What's Changed

1 Introduction to Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)

• 1.1 Key Features
• 1.2 System Requirements
• 1.3 Prerequisite Checks
• 1.4 OUI Launcher
• 1.5 Actions Performed by OUI
  • 1.5.1 Installation
  • 1.5.2 Deinstallation
  • 1.5.3 Cloning
  • 1.5.4 Patching
  • 1.5.5 Upgrades and Patchsets
  • 1.5.6 Inventory Operations
• 1.6 Major Entities Created
  • 1.6.1 Inventory
  • 1.6.2 Oracle Home
• 1.7 Modes of Installation
  • 1.7.1 Interactive Mode
  • 1.7.2 Suppressed-Interactive Mode
  • 1.7.3 Silent Mode

2 Managing Oracle Home Directories

• 2.1 Installing an Oracle Product
• 2.2 Determining the Default Oracle Home
• 2.3 Managing Multiple Oracle Homes
  • 2.3.1 Target Home
• 2.4 Oracle Universal Installer Inventory
  • 2.4.1 Structure of the Oracle Universal Installer Inventory
    • 2.4.1.1 Central Inventory Pointer File
    • 2.4.1.2 Central Inventory
    • 2.4.1.3 Oracle Home Inventory
  • 2.4.2 Creating the Central Inventory
    • 2.4.2.1 Using Session Variables
    • 2.4.2.2 Verifying the Operation
  • 2.4.3 Detaching Oracle Homes from the Central Inventory
    • 2.4.3.1 Using the Optional -local Option
    • 2.4.3.2 Removing the Central Inventory
  • 2.4.4 Consolidating Multiple Central Inventories
  • 2.4.5 Reconstructing a Shared Central Inventory on a Nonshared Location
    • 2.4.5.1 Oracle Recommendation Regarding Central Inventory Placement
    • 2.4.5.2 Enforced Shared Inventory Check
    • 2.4.5.3 Procedure to Reconstruct the Central Inventory
  • 2.4.6 Upgrading and Patching the Oracle Home
  • 2.4.7 Cloning Oracle Homes
  • 2.4.8 Backing up the Central Inventory
  • 2.4.9 Recovering from Central Inventory Corruption
    • 2.4.9.1 Diagnosing and Recovering from Central Inventory Corruption
• 2.5 Home Selector (Available on Win32 Platforms)
  • 2.5.1 Home Selector Overview
  • 2.5.2 How Home Selector Works
  • 2.5.3 Oracle Home Directory Structure for Windows Platforms
  • 2.5.4 Optimal Flexible Architecture Directory Structure (on Unix)
    • 2.5.4.1 ORACLE_BASE Directory
    • 2.5.4.2 ORACLE_HOME Directory
• 2.6 Global Distribution Registry (GDR) Selections
  • 2.6.1 Feature Set Groups
  • 2.6.2 Install Types
  • 2.6.3 Custom Selections
  • 2.6.4 The InstallerConfig API
• 2.7 Removing or Deinstalling an Oracle Home

3 Creating and Customizing a Response File

• 3.1 About Response Files
  • 3.1.1 What is a Silent Installation?
  • 3.1.2 What is a Response File?
  • 3.1.3 Why Perform a Silent Installation?
• 3.2 Modifying a Response File
• 3.3 Saving a Response File after Installation
• 3.4 Response File Format
  • 3.4.1 Variable Values
    • 3.4.1.1 Variable Lookup Order
    • 3.4.1.2 Response File Entries Order
    • 3.4.1.3 Setting the Recommendation Value
  • 3.4.2 Comments
  • 3.4.3 Headers
  • 3.4.4 Response File Parameters
• 3.5 Installing with a Response File
  • 3.5.1 Specifying a Response File
  • 3.5.2 Optional Parameters When Specifying a Response File
  • 3.5.3 Setting Response File Variables From the Command Line
    • 3.5.3.1 Specifying the Value of a Session Variable
    • 3.5.3.2 Specifying the Value of a Component Variable

4 Installing Products

• 4.1 Checking Prerequisites Before Installation
• 4.2 Installing Oracle Products
  • 4.2.1 Getting Help While Installing Oracle Products
  • 4.2.2 About the oraparam.ini File
  • 4.2.3 Modes of Installation
  • 4.2.4 Invocation Tools and Examples
  • 4.2.5 Installation Media
    • 4.2.5.1 Installing from a Single CD-ROM
    • 4.2.5.2 Installing from Multiple CD-ROMs
    • 4.2.5.3 Installing from a Staged HTTP Location
  • 4.2.6 Special Instructions for UNIX Users
• 4.3 Deinstalling Oracle Products
• 4.4 Running Oracle Universal Installer After Installation
  • 4.4.1 Starting Oracle Universal Installer
  • 4.4.2 Command Line Arguments
  • 4.4.3 Using Oracle Universal Installer Exit Codes
  • 4.4.4 Cloning Considerations
• 4.5 About Oracle Universal Installer Log Files

5 Cloning Oracle Software

• 5.1 Cloning Features and Benefits
• 5.2 How Cloning Works
• 5.3 Cloning an NG Oracle Home
  • 5.3.1 Phase 1: Preparing the Source Oracle Home
  • 5.3.2 Phase 2: Cloning the Destination Home

6 Oracle Internationalization and Translation

• 6.1 Installation Language Dialogs
• 6.2 Product Language Selections
• 6.3 Language Add-on

7 Inventory Utilities

• 7.1 Inventory View
  • 7.1.1 Console Output
  • 7.1.2 CSV File Output
  • 7.1.3 XML File Output
  • 7.1.4 Inventory View Utility Usage
• 7.2 Inventory Compare
  • 7.2.1 Console Output
  • 7.2.2 CSV File Output
  • 7.2.3 XML File Output
  • 7.2.4 Inventory Compare Utility Usage

A Troubleshooting and Debugging OUI

• A.1 Oracle Universal Installer Errors
• A.2 Using SSH
• A.3 Other Tips
  • A.3.1 Troubleshooting Third-Party Products
• A.4 Frequently Asked Questions
• A.5 Debugging Mechanisms in Oracle Universal Installer
  • A.5.1 Installation Log
  • A.5.2 Automated Inventory Backups

B Understanding OUI Commands

• B.1 Options Available in Oracle Universal Installer
• B.2 Command-Line Variables Available in Oracle Universal Installer

C Sample Files

• C.1 Sample Components File
• C.2 Sample oraparam.ini File
• C.3 Sample Components File

D Error Messages and Solutions

• D.1 OUI - 10001
• D.2 OUI - 10004
• D.3 OUI - 10005
• D.4 OUI - 10020
• D.5 OUI - 10021
• D.6 OUI - 10022
• D.7 OUI - 10024
• D.8 OUI - 10025
• D.9 OUI - 10028
• D.10 OUI - 10029
• D.11 OUI - 10030
• D.12 OUI - 10031
• D.13 OUI - 10033
• D.14 OUI - 10034
• D.15 OUI - 10035
• D.16 OUI - 10036
• D.17 OUI - 10038
• D.18 OUI - 10039
• D.19 OUI - 10040
• D.20 OUI - 10041
• D.21 OUI - 10044
• D.22 OUI - 10053
• D.23 OUI - 10054
• D.24 OUI - 10055
• D.25 OUI - 10056
• D.26 OUI - 10058
• D.27 OUI - 10059
• D.28 OUI - 10070
• D.29 OUI - 10082
• D.30 OUI - 10083
• D.31 OUI - 10088
• D.32 OUI - 10091
• D.33 OUI - 10092
• D.34 OUI - 10094
• D.35 OUI - 10095
• D.36 OUI - 10096
• D.37 OUI - 10104
• D.38 OUI - 10105
• D.39 OUI - 10116
• D.40 OUI - 10122
• D.41 OUI - 10135
• D.42 OUI - 10136
• D.43 OUI - 10137
• D.44 OUI - 10153

E Oracle Universal Installer API Inventory

• E.1 Package
• E.2 Class/Interface
• E.3 Annotation Type
• E.4 Enum
• E.5 Use
• E.6 Tree (Class Hierarchy)'
• E.7 Deprecated API
• E.8 Index
• E.9 Prev/Next
• E.10 Frames/No Frames
• E.11 All Classes
• E.12 Serialized Form
• E.13 Constant Field Values

Glossary

Index