To apply a single patch to an Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle home, use the opatch apply command.
Example 1-1 shows how to use the opatch apply command to apply a patch to an Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle home.
This example assumes that:
The patch you have downloaded has been saved to a directory that is named for the patch number in My Oracle Support. In this case, the patch number is 15941858.
The user changes directory to the patch directory and then runs the OPatch apply command. Alternatively, you can run the OPatch command from the ORACLE_HOME/OPatch directory and include the location of the patch as an argument to the command. For example:
opatch apply /opt/patches/15941858/
The OPatch directory is already included in the PATH variable on the host computer.
Example 1-1 Using the OPatch apply Command to Apply a Patch to an Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Home
> cd /opt/patches/15941858 > opatch apply Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 13.3.0.0.0 Copyright (c) 2013, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Oracle Home : /opt/Oracle/products/fmw12c Central Inventory : /opt/Oracle/oraInventory from : /var/opt/Oracle/oraInst.loc OPatch version : 13.3.0.0.0 OUI version : 13.3.0.0.0 Log file location : /opt/Oracle/products/fmw12c/cfgtoollogs/opatch/15941858_Jun_10_2013_12_35_24/apply2013-06-10_12-35-15PM_1.log OPatch detects the Middleware Home as "/opt/Oracle/products/fmw12c" Applying interim patch '15941858' to OH '/opt/Oracle/products/fmw12c' Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks... All checks passed. Please shutdown Oracle instances running out of this ORACLE_HOME on the local system. (Oracle Home = '/opt/Oracle/products/fmw12c') Is the local system ready for patching? [y|n] y User Responded with: Y Backing up files... Patching component oracle.wls.core.app.server, 12.2.1.0.0... Verifying the update... Patch 15941858 successfully applied Log file location: /opt/Oracle/products/fmw12c/cfgtoollogs/opatch/15941858_Jun_10_2013_12_35_24/apply2013-06-10_12-35-15PM_1.log -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are no Interim patches installed in this Oracle Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPatch succeeded.