Re: oracle home woes

Nope... Once you have multiple homes, Developer( Forms and reports, etc) and Designer will not install... the only solution is to uninstall the 8.1 ( all the products in OraHome81)

Install the Forms/reports, etc in default home, then reinstall the 8.1 stuff...

Sorry....

alecvb_at_erols.com (alec) wrote:

>I have some Oracle software installed on Windows2000(NT)
>
>I have two oracle homes. One is default_home. Location is
>c:\Oracle\tools In it I have installed various Oracle tools.
>Recently I installed Oracle Forms6i, which works fine.
>
>The other home is OraHome81. Location is c:\Oracle\Ora81 In it I have
>installed an Oracle 816 database and server.
>
>The problem came when I tried to install Oracle Forms and Reports 6i
>Demos.
>
>First, I try to install to default_home where Forms and Reports 6i is
>already installed. But when installer starts to analyze dependencies,
>I get the message "Oracle Forms Demos does not support mulitple
>installations, and therefore cannot be installed in Default_Home. It
>can only be installed in OraHome81.
>
>Then, I try to install to OraHome81, but immediately get the message:
>"c:\Oracle\Ora81 is already in sue as an Oracle home for "Oracle 816
>production" and cannot be used as an Oracle Home for NT.
>
>I've looked all through the registry, but I cannot see where the
>problem is.
>
>anyone got an idea what I can try?
>
>yours,
>
>Alec von Brand
  Received on Wed Dec 20 2000 - 18:06:09 CET