Re: Can't deinstall 8.1.6

The other possibility could be that it might require the password for the sys. The default password for the sys is "change_on_install". Once you deinstall the database you could go ahead and use the installer to remove the logical files. But, it happens that after the installer uninstalls the files, you have to do rm -f ~/dir_name to remove the files physically.

Then go ahead and remove the files from /var/opt/oracle/oratab. This will make sure whrn you reboot linux, the oracle db will not be started.

The hard way to do it is do

ps -ef| grep oracle

kill all the oracle processes and then do rm -f on the oracle_base or on the directory where you have installed oracle. Then go ahead and remove the /var/opt/oracle directory to make sure that you have removed all the files.

Good luck,
Sam

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In article <39D370D3.166639CF_at_webde-ag.de>,   Uwe Schneider <us_at_webde-ag.de> wrote:
> kev wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've installed 8.1.6 on Red Hat 6.2, and created a DB at
 installation
> > time. I realise I didn't want to do this, so I de-installed Oracle
 using
> > the installer prog.
> > When I select 'Installed Products' from the installer prog it says
 that
> > there are no Oracle products installed, yet all the files are still
> > there under OraHome1.
> > If I run the installer prog again, it also picks up that there is a
> > database in existence (the one I created on the first install).
> > How am I supposed to actually uninstall Oracle?
> >
>
> The reason could be:
> - an entry in /etc/oratab
> - $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/init<SID>.ora
> - $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/sgadef<SID>.dbf
>
> Uwe
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