Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Removing Oracle 11gR2 software

To clean up the installed Oracle 11gR2 software, execute the deinstall script. It is present in $ORACLE_HOME/deinstall directory.

$ORACLE_HOME/deinstall/deinstall
Checking for required files and bootstrapping ...
Please wait ...
Location of logs /scratch/Oracle/OraInventory/logs/

############ ORACLE DEINSTALL & DECONFIG TOOL START ############


######################## CHECK OPERATION START ########################
Install check configuration START


Checking for existence of the Oracle home location /scratch/Oracle11gr2/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
Oracle Home type selected for de-install is: SIDB
Oracle Base selected for de-install is: /scratch/Oracle11gr2
Checking for existence of central inventory location /scratch/Oracle/OraInventory

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ran it, after successful run installed software still there.

Anonymous said...

After that it asks various questions like listener, database...

Shannara said...

yeah, that doesnt work. Oracle still haven't figured out how to properly uninstall their own software, at 11g r2.

The odbc driver entry is still there ...