Oracle Installation & Maintenance

Silent Installation

Unlike some databases (working ones) which have a command line installation (DB2) or are installed as a service (PostegreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL and others) Oracle is little noisy queen when it comes to installation GUI installation. So in order to save a lot of dead neurons, here is a easy way how you can install silent Software ONLY:

The response file can be seen below, but you can also use the default one :).

PSU PATCH

Stop all shit running from the ORACLE_HOME being patched

opatch apply

@$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catbundle.sql psu apply

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