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Michael Schmarck

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Jul 25, 2008, 5:50:17 AM7/25/08
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Hi.

On a Solaris 10 Sparc 64bit system, I did a "software only" install
of Oracle 10.2.0.1.0. Now I'd like patch it to 10.2.0.3.0. But how
do I do that?

I ran "runInstaller" from the patch and pointed it to the directory
where I installed the Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 software. But then I get
an error message telling me, that there already is such a directory.
And if I specify some empty directory, OUI tells me, that there's
nothing to patch in this directory.

Is it possible to install the 10.2.0.3.0 patch if there's no database
yet available?

Thanks a lot,

Michael

Cristian Cudizio

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Jul 25, 2008, 6:13:53 AM7/25/08
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I've not understood well what goes wrong to you but i can assure you
that you can do that.
I've made it a lot of times, it saves you time to patch the catalog of
the existing database.


Regards,
Cristian Cudizio

Michael Schmarck

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Jul 25, 2008, 7:12:22 AM7/25/08
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Cristian Cudizio <cristian...@yahoo.it> wrote:

> On 25 Lug, 11:50, Michael Schmarck <usenet-mich...@schmarck.cn> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On a Solaris 10 Sparc 64bit system, I did a "software only" install
>> of Oracle 10.2.0.1.0. Now I'd like patch it to 10.2.0.3.0. But how
>> do I do that?
>>
>> I ran "runInstaller" from the patch and pointed it to the directory
>> where I installed the Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 software. But then I get
>> an error message telling me, that there already is such a directory.
>> And if I specify some empty directory, OUI tells me, that there's
>> nothing to patch in this directory.
>>
>> Is it possible to install the 10.2.0.3.0 patch if there's no database
>> yet available?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Michael
>
> I've not understood well what goes wrong to you but i can assure you
> that you can do that.

Okay. And how do you do that? :)

What I did:

- I ran "runInstaller" from the patch.
- I accepted the default and specified an empty directory
-> Error
- As this did not work, I pointed it to the directory where I
installed 10.2.0.1.0
-> Error

I uploaded a screenshot showing the error messages - maybe this makes
it a bit clearer:
http://www.screenshots.cc/show.php/19072_OracleErrorMessageswhentryingtoinstallPatch.8b.png.html

Michael

Arch

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Jul 25, 2008, 8:36:03 AM7/25/08
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You can't change just the path field. You need to change the "Name"
to the Name of the ORACLE_HOME that you wish to patch.
-Arch

Michael Schmarck

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Jul 25, 2008, 10:18:07 AM7/25/08
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Hi!

Arch <sen...@spam.net> wrote:

> You can't change just the path field. You need to change the "Name"
> to the Name of the ORACLE_HOME that you wish to patch.

Okay.

Ah, indeed! After setting ORACLE_HOME correctly, everything works
fine.

It would be nice, if there would be something like a drop down which
would let you point-n-click to select the correct value. But, well,
it works... :)

Cheers and nice weekend!

Michael

Frank van Bortel

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Jul 26, 2008, 5:56:10 AM7/26/08
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Cristian Cudizio wrote:

>
> I've not understood well what goes wrong to you but i can assure you
> that you can do that.
> I've made it a lot of times, it saves you time to patch the catalog of
> the existing database.
>

I second that, with one additional remark:
be careful when using the pre cooked databases
when using DBCA - they are not always patched, too.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Frank van Bortel

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Jul 26, 2008, 5:59:09 AM7/26/08
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Michael Schmarck wrote:

> It would be nice, if there would be something like a drop down which
> would let you point-n-click to select the correct value. But, well,
> it works... :)

There is, actually...
You can select the Home by name, and the path will be adapted,
but only after setting the environment correctly (as you
found out)

hpuxrac

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Jul 26, 2008, 12:41:22 PM7/26/08
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On Jul 25, 5:50 am, Michael Schmarck <usenet-mich...@schmarck.cn>
wrote:

Any specific reason why you are patching to 10.2.0.3 when 10.2.0.4 is
available?

joel garry

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Jul 28, 2008, 3:26:05 PM7/28/08
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On Jul 26, 2:56 am, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Having just done this on Friday, I was wondering what effects one
would be looking for to know something needs to be done? I don't see
anything like in the release notes ie, ORA-39700, invalid objects,
etc. It's looking like 10.2.0.4 seems to handle this, at least on the
combo I tried, followed by creating an RMAN catalog. Of course, I'm
not done yet.

I'm speculating the dbua files for 10.2.0.4 have the correct seed
databases.

jg
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Mladen Gogala

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Aug 12, 2008, 8:27:58 AM8/12/08
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Cristian Cudizio wrote:

> I've made it a lot of times, it saves you time to patch the catalog of
> the existing database.


Ditto.
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