Start the Response File Build Utility

The Response File Build Utility creates the response file that provides installation values used by the silent-mode installer.

On the STA server, open a terminal session. Log in as the Oracle user.
Verify that the Oracle user has write privileges to the directory where you want to save the response file. For example:
```
$ ls -ld /home/oracle/ResponseFiles/
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Sep 16  2015 /home/oracle/ResponseFiles/
```
If you are creating a new response file, determine whether the directory includes any response files you want to keep and save them as necessary. Existing files with the default response file name will be overwritten by the response file build utility.
The default response file names are as follows.
- silentInstall.rsp—Silent installation response file
- silentDeinstall.rsp—Silent deinstallation response file
For example:
```
$ cd /home/oracle/ResponseFiles
$ ls -l *.rsp
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   oracle           2836 Jun 30 16:49 silentInstall.rsp

$ mv silentInstall.rsp silentInstall_save.rsp
```
Change to the directory where you have downloaded the STA installer files. For example:
```
$ cd /Installers
```

Launch the response file build utility. For example:

$ java -jar silentInstallUtility_2.3.1.jar

The utility starts and the Main Menu appears.

  1) Create a new response file (with system prompt).
  2) Create an empty response file.
  3) Enter and encrypt passwords.
  4) Exit.

Select an option:
- Enter 1 and proceed to Create a Response File With Values.
- Enter 2 and proceed to Create an Empty Response File and Manually Add Values.
- Enter 3 and proceed to Add Encrypted Passwords to a Response File.