Preface

This guide describes the installation process for Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4) (formerly Oracle9i Developer Suite) on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX.

This preface contains these topics:

• Intended Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Structure

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Intended Audience

This installation guide is intended for developers, database administrators, and others responsible for installing Oracle products. You should be familiar with client/server architecture and relationships, and database concepts.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle Corporation is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation  JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace. Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation  This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle Corporation does not own or control. Oracle Corporation neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Structure

This guide contains:

Chapter 1, "Installation Concepts"

This chapter provides an overview of the installation and the available installation options.

Chapter 2, "Getting Started"

This chapter lists the Oracle Developer Suite hardware and software requirements. It also lists preinstallation tasks that you must perform before installing.

Chapter 3, "Installation"

This chapter guides you through the installation and postinstallation steps.

Chapter 4, "Deinstallation and Reinstallation"

This chapter guides you through deinstallation and reinstallation.

Appendix A, "Upgrade Notes"

This appendix contains information about migrating or upgrading from earlier versions of Oracle Developer Suite components.

Appendix B, "Components"

This appendix provides brief descriptions of the Oracle Developer Suite components.

Appendix C, "Installing the Documentation Library"

This appendix describes the contents of the Oracle Developer Suite Documentation Library and provides instructions for installing and viewing the documentation.

Appendix D, "Silent and Non-Interactive Install"

This appendix contains information about installing Oracle Developer Suite using silent install and non-interactive installation.

Appendix E, "Troubleshooting"

This appendix lists some methods for troubleshooting your installation.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Developer Suite Documentation Library

• Oracle Developer Suite Platform Specific Documentation on the Oracle Developer Suite Disk 1 CD-ROM, the Oracle Developer Suite Documentation Library CD-ROM, or the Oracle Developer Suite DVD.

You can purchase printed documentation in the Oracle Store at

http://oraclestore.oracle.com/

To download free release notes, installation documentation, white papers, or other collateral, please visit the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). You must register online before using OTN; registration is free and can be done at

http://otn.oracle.com/membership

If you already have a username and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN Web site at

http://otn.oracle.com/documentation

Conventions

The following conventions are also used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning
. . .	Vertical ellipsis points in an example mean that information not directly related to the example has been omitted.
. . .	Horizontal ellipsis points in statements or commands mean that parts of the statement or command not directly related to the example have been omitted
[ ]	Brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
boldface text	Boldface type in text indicates a term defined in the text, the glossary, or in both locations.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.
code (lowercase monospace or fixed-width font)	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, file names, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, user names and roles, program units, and parameter values.Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.
boldface code	Boldface monospace typeface indicates text that you enter in response to a command line prompt.
italicized code	Italicized code indicates placeholder text that you need to replace with an appropriate value
CODE (UPPERCASE monospace or fixed-width font)	Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles.