Re: Custom installations of Oracle9i/10g

Have you tried custom install, removing all the options and selecting only the DBMS?

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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From: "Adam Donahue" <adonahue_at_opsware.com> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 1:01 AM
Subject: Custom installations of Oracle9i/10g

> Folks,
> This has been puzzling me for some time. It seems so obvious, but I
> can't find any good information on how to do it.
>
> The question is, how does one tailor an Oracle installation down to
> its bare minimum -- /just/ the rdbms, no extras? Of course, I'm able
> to remove certain higher-level components, e.g., Enterprise Manager,
> but any attempt to remove most more specific components generates a
> dependency list that includes the core database software itself.
>
> For example, consider deinstalling SQL*Loader. This tool obviously
> requires Oracle 9i; but why would Oracle 9i in turn require it, more
> specifically, why is Oracle 9.2.0.4 removed along with it?
>
> Say I select removal from the OUI:
>
> Oracle Homes ->
> oracleHome1 ->
> Oracle9i Database 9.2.0.4.0 ->
> Oracle9i 9.2.0.4.0 ->
> Oracle Database Utilities 9.2.0.4.0 ->
> SQL*Loader 9.2.0.4.0 <-- selected
>
> If I try now to deinstall SQL*Loader, by selecting it and it alone from
> the deinstallation menu, it creates a dependency list including the
> database executables themselves! Click "deinstall" and you end up
> deinstalling half the database software, leaving you with a very broken
> Oracle installation. Can this be prevented?
>
> Is there /any/ way to tailor an installation of Oracle9i at this level
> of granularity? How about Oracle10g?
>
> I'd hate to have to resort to removing individual files myself (and I'm
> sure it would break some support agreements, but this is mainly for
> internal testing at this point), but there is so much, um, crap,
> installed with 9i that 90% of it doesn't seem relevant to anything we're
> currently doing.
>
> The example above is for Standard Edition, but I've seen similar
> behavior with Enterprise Edition.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
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