Re: Applying Oracle Critical Patch Update Apr 2005 for 8174 on Unix Servers

From: Vincent Ventrone <moe_at_nospam.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 10:36:56 -0400
Message-ID: <d582a8$jmi$1@courier.brandeis.edu>

> We don't have JDK_HOME installed ; however install.sh refers to JDK_HOME,
> doesn't find one and stops execution at this point.
> Would appreciate if someone could answer the following for me:
>
> 1. Should we modify the script to remove references to JDK_HOME or skip
> CPU Apr '05 patch altogether?
>

I wouldn't...

> 2. We initally thought of Un-installing the HTTP server, so that we need
> not apply the patches. But I have no idea whether we can uninstall this
> component. Could someone let me know the "Response file method" (or give
> some pointers) of deinstalling the Oracle HTTP server from Oracle 8174 EE.
> Also, convey whether this uninstall will have any effect on the DB start
> or are there any dependencies?

I ran into the same issue just last week -- the sys admin simply installed the JDK in /opt/oracle/jdk/1.2.2 -- it didn't seem to be a big deal for him to do that. I just then set JDK_HOME to this dir. & the patch was happy. Received on Tue May 03 2005 - 09:36:56 CDT