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Is there a way to run Oracle Universal Installer in english without resetting the system locale [message #665396]

Sun, 03 September 2017 20:43

juniordbanewbie
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Registered: April 2014

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Dear Sir/mdm,

I'm currently in a berlin/german server, when I run oracle universal installer it is display in german, so how do I set to english without restarting the server

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e47959/gblsupp.htm#NTCLI1351

when I try above, it display it affects all server which is not what I want.

and thanks in advance!

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Re: Is there a way to run Oracle Universal Installer in english without resetting the system locale [message #665401 is a reply to message #665396]

Mon, 04 September 2017 04:04

ThomasG
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Location: Heilbronn, Germany

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You can set NLS_LANG variable just in the shell session where you start the Installer.

Just run

NLS_LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in the shell before you start the installer

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Re: Is there a way to run Oracle Universal Installer in english without resetting the system locale [message #665439 is a reply to message #665401]

Tue, 05 September 2017 23:49

juniordbanewbie
Messages: 250
Registered: April 2014

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Dear Sir,

looks like i forget to mention the OS. My customer server is Windows 2008 r2 datacenter, so how to set to english locale without resetting the server's locale?

thanks

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Re: Is there a way to run Oracle Universal Installer in english without resetting the system locale [message #665454 is a reply to message #665439]

Wed, 06 September 2017 06:54

EdStevens
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Registered: September 2013

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juniordbanewbie wrote on Tue, 05 September 2017 23:49

Dear Sir,

looks like i forget to mention the OS. My customer server is Windows 2008 r2 datacenter, so how to set to english locale without resetting the server's locale?

thanks

Exactly the same as you do in *nix.

Open a command session (cmd.exe). This is the Windows poor excuse fro the equivalent of a shell process.
Set the environment variable. In *nix, you just state the name of the variable and its value (myvar=somevalue). In Windows, you use the 'set' commend (set myvar=somevalue).

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