10 Uninstalling Oracle Quick Start

Follow the instructions in this section to remove Oracle Quick Start products from your system.

• Performing Pre-Uninstallation Tasks
  
• Uninstalling a Quick Start Distribution
  

Performing Pre-Uninstallation Tasks

Before uninstalling Oracle Fusion Middleware software components, you should stop all Oracle Fusion Middleware processes.

For more information about starting and stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware, refer to Starting and Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Uninstalling a Quick Start Distribution

When you run the uninstaller, it removes everything under the Oracle home (referred to in this guide as ORACLE_HOME) from which the uninstaller is started. Be sure that no system components are using the Oracle home you want to remove.

• Starting the Uninstaller
  
• Manually Removing the Oracle Home
  
• Cleaning Up JDeveloper Artifacts
  

Starting the Uninstaller

To uninstall a Quick Start distribution, do the following:

1. Go to the following location in your ORACLE_HOME:

   • On a Windows system:

     ORACLE_HOME\oui\bin\
     

   • On Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X systems:

     ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/
     

2. Start the uninstaller by running the following command:

   • On a Windows system:

     deinstall.cmd
     

   • On Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X systems:

     ./deinstall.sh
     

Manually Removing the Oracle Home

If you selected No on the warning screen during uninstallation, you must manually remove your ORACLE_HOME directory and all sub-directories. For example, if your ORACLE_HOME directory is /home/Oracle/, then on a Linux or UNIX operating system, enter the following commands:

cd /home/Oracle/
rm -rf 

On a Windows operating system, if your ORACLE_HOME directory is C:\Oracle\, use a file manager window and navigate to the C:\Oracle\ directory and delete the contents of the directory..

Cleaning Up JDeveloper Artifacts

Make sure you delete any remaining jdeveloper and .jdeveloper directories from your home directory.