Oracle client deinstall tool

Instead, run it from your installation media or the installation directory you created for downloaded or copied installation files.

To do so, insert Oracle Database installation media and navigate to the client directory. Alternatively, navigate to the directory where you downloaded or copied the installation files. Then double-click setup. Select the Oracle home you wish to remove. Expand the tree of installed components only if you want to remove selected components of an Oracle home. For example, if you installed Oracle Database Client with the Runtime option and later installed additional components with the Custom option, then expand the Oracle home component to display all the components installed in the Oracle home.

After the components are removed from your computer, the Inventory window appears without the removed components. After Oracle Universal Installer exits, go to the next section to remove the remaining Oracle Database Client components.

Oracle Universal Installer does not remove all Oracle components. After using Oracle Universal Installer to remove Oracle components, you need to manually remove remaining registry keys, environment variables, Start menu options, and directories. In addition, it does not delete several other registry keys.

You must remove any existing registry keys manually by following the instructions in one of the following sections:. From the Start menu, choose Run , and then enter the following command:. From the Start menu, choose Run , and enter the following command:. Select the Advanced tab and then click Environment Variables. You may see a Path variable that contains entries similar to the following:. Check the Start menu for any Oracle Database Client entries and remove them.

After removing all Oracle Database Client registry keys and restarting the computer, delete any existing Oracle Database Client directories and files.

It generates the response file that you can then use with the -silent option. You can also modify the template file deinstall. Use this flag to run the deinstallation tool with a response file in a location other than the default.

When you use this flag, provide the complete path where the response file is located. Use this flag with a response file to override one or more values to change in a response file you have created. Use this flag to provide a path other than the default location where the response file deinstall.

Use this flag to specify a non-default location where Oracle Deinstallation Tool writes the temporary files for the deinstallation. Use this flag to specify a non-default location where Oracle Deinstallation Tool writes the log files for the deinstallation.

When you run deinstall with this flag, it deconfigures and deinstalls the Oracle software on the local node the node where deinstall is run. On remote nodes, it deconfigures Oracle software, but does not deinstall the Oracle software. Use this flag in Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations on a multinode environment to deconfigure a local Grid home without deleting the Grid home.

The deinstall command then discovers information from the Oracle home to deinstall and deconfigure. It generates the properties file, which you can then use with the -silent option. You can also modify the template file deinstall.

Use this flag to check the status of the Oracle software home configuration. Running the command with the -checkonly flag does not remove the Oracle configuration.

The -checkonly flag generates a parameter file that you can use with the deinstall command. When you run deinstall with this flag, it deconfigures and deinstalls the Oracle software on the local node the node where deinstall is run.

On remote nodes, it deconfigures Oracle software, but does not deinstall the Oracle software. Use this flag to run deinstall with a parameter file in a location other than the default. When you use this flag, provide the complete path where the parameter file is located.

The default location of the parameter file depends on the location of deinstall :. Use this flag with a parameter file to override one or more values to change it in a parameter file you have already created.

Use this flag to provide a path other than the default location where the properties file is saved.