Re: uninstalling Oracle server

From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku_at_gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 17 Jul 2001 07:16:57 GMT
Message-ID: <9j0op9$r0q$2@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE>

Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

: Christoph Kukulies <kuku_at_gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message news:<9iu2di$59r$1_at_nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE>...

:> Oracle (at least 8.0.5 - don't know for 8i) installs into NT 4.0
:> in a way which makes it hard to deinstall. Neither there is a decent
:> Uninstaller nor there is a way to do it via Add/Remove Programs in the
:> system setup group.
:>
:> I used regedt32 and del /s resp. explorer to remove all traces of Oracle
:> I could find though still I'm not sure whether I have found all.
:>
:> Also Oracle may have installed DLLs which stay left in the system unless
:> I will be doing a complete NT reinstall.
:>
:> Weird.
:>
:> Another side note: The 8.0.5 installer from the CD crashes randomly.
:> Very very instable. (This is NT 4.0 SP6a or SP6)

: Why need an UnInstaller if you can remove products by means of the Installer?

This doesn't seem to remove all traces of an Oracle installation from a machine so that it behaves like it was before Oracle has been installed.

Does it remove the \ORANT directory tree?

: Regards,  

: Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA  

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 02:16:57 CDT