Thursday, July 22, 2010

How to uninstall Oracle 11g

Uninstall Oracle software 11.2g
In 11.2g there is deinstall command through which you can uninstall standalone Oracle Database installations, Oracle Clusterware and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) from your server, as well as Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) and Oracle Database client installations. You can find out deinstall tool under $ORACLE_HOME/deinstall folder.

If you don't have deinstall tool you can download it from url http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html

- Under Oracle Database 11g Release 2, click See All for the respective platform for which you want to download the Deinstallation Tool.

- The Deinstallation Tool is available for download at the end of the page.

So, in 11.2g just use,
$$ORACLE_HOME/deinstall/deinstall

Uninstall Oracle software in 11.1g
If you are running Oracle 11.1g then you have to open the Oracle Universal Installer on windows and runInstaller on unix. In windoes you can find oui under $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin and file name is setup.exe.

1 comment:

  1. $ORACLE_HOME is the location of an environment variable pointing to the directory where the Oracle software is installed.

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