Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) FAQ
(Doc ID 458893.1)
Last updated on SEPTEMBER 01, 2023
Applies to:
Oracle Universal Installer - Version 10.1.0.5 and laterInformation in this document applies to any platform.
Purpose
FAQ on Oracle Universal Installer (OUI )
Scope
Database Administrators, Support
Details
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In this Document
| Purpose |
| Scope |
| Details |
| What is OUI? |
| What are the Requirements for OUI? |
| How to find the default java version automatically installed with OUI? |
| Which is the default location for OUI? |
| How to find the version of the installed OUI? |
| Where can you find the logs for OUI? |
| How to remove / de-install / uninstall an existing Oracle home using OUI? |
| You have lost the Central Inventory but have a valid Oracle home(s). What do you do? |
| You want to deploy multiple Oracle home(s) from an existing Oracle home. How do you do this? |
| You have lost the $Oracle_Home/inventory local inventory or directories/files under this location, what can you do? |
| How is OUI Getting initialized? |
| Can you edit oraparam.ini file? |
| What are the different modes of installation using OUI? |
| What are OUI exit codes? |
| How can you troubleshoot the OUI hanging/disappearing issues on UNIX? |
| How can you trouble shoot the OUI hanging/disappearing issues on WINDOWS? |
| When You start OUI from any location, after setting the PATH , you get an error that reads "Could not read any NLS message catalogue!". What do you do? |
| What is Cloning? How can you do a cloning using OUI? |
| How to attach an Oracle Home using OUI? |
| How to detach an Oracle Home using OUI? |
| How to start the OUI if the oraInst.loc file is not in the default location? (Unix) |
| How to create a new response file? |
| How to remove/ de-install / uninstall Oracle products using OUI? |
| How to clean up the inventory after deleting the Oracle Home manually using OS commands ("rm -rf " or other)? |
| How to remove the central inventory after all the Oracle Homes on a host are removed? |
| How to do the prerequisite/conflicts checks using OUI (Oracle Universal Installer) before applying/rolling back a patch? |
| How to create a response file for silent installation? |
| Can you use OUI to install one-off patches? |
| How can you trace OUI on Windows or Unix? |
| Can I install a new ORACLE_HOME using OUI, while a database from a different ORACLE_HOME is still running? |
| How to download latest Standalone OUI? |
| References |