Re: Installing Designer 6i

Bob,

[Quoted] Check out the Designer installation guide. It discusses an order of installation for products. Here is what it sais:

At the [database] server:
Oracle8i Server, Release 8.1.6 (but see Order of installation before installing)

Order of installation:

Client and server on separate machines

1. Oracle 8.1.6 database 
2. Oracle Designer client software 
3. Oracle Repository
 

Client and server on the same machine

1. Oracle Designer client software (into first Oracle home) 
2. Oracle 8.1.6 database (into separate Oracle8i Oracle home) 
3. Oracle Repository 

[Quoted] I just went through the same B.S. I can't believe oracle makes their installations so difficult. I can go on about Oracle but I will stop here!!!!! I had to uninstall oracle 8i, then install Designer, then reinstall Oracle 8i, then the repository. There may be other ways in which you can tweak the registry to get around the problem, but I was unable to find any information regarding that strategy.

Hope this helps. Best of luck to you.

Chris

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:46:29 -0600, "Bob Schmitz" <bschmitz_at_execpc.com> wrote:

>Has any one had any installation problems of Designer 6i on W2K
>Professional? My current configuration includes the Oracle 8i client
>previously installed. The problem I am getting has been documented on OTN
>documentation as follows:
>
>An Oracle8i database may already be installed on your machine when you
>install Oracle Designer.
>
>In this case, when you install the Oracle Designer client software, you will
>see a message indicating that the Installer
>cannot install to multiple Oracle home directories. Let the installation run
>to this point, then acknowledge the message
>and exit from the Installer. Run the Windows registry editor (regedit) and
>change the following registry entry:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ALL_HOMES\DEFAULT_HOME
>
>from the Oracle home name for the database (e.g. OraHome81) to the name of
>the Oracle home where you want to
>install Oracle Designer 6i (e.g. Orant). Restart installation of the
>Designer client software; the installation should proceed
>correctly.
>
>
>Now when I modify the registry value and restart the installation process I
>get a fatal error which states that the directory "Orant" already exists.
>
>Any ideas short of uninstalling my previously installed Oracle Client
>software would be helpful.
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 06 2000 - 16:14:06 CET