Silent installation of Oracle XE Server

Steps to create silent installation of Oracle XE Server

To perform a silent installation of Oracle Database XE Server, you need to create a response file and a wrapper shell script to perform the silent installation. The silent installation response file handles the configuration information

To perform a silent installation:

1. After downloading the installation executable

Create a response file that contains settings for the following values:

· A valid HTTP port numeric value, so that you can connect to the Oracle Database XE graphical user interface

· A valid listener numeric port value, so that you can connect to the Oracle Database XE database

· A password value for the SYS and SYSTEM administrative user accounts

· The SYS and SYSTEM password value again, to confirm it

· Yes (y) or no (n), to specify whether you want to start Oracle Database XE automatically when the computer starts

List only the values themselves, in the order shown as follows. For example:

8080

1521

44gh992

44gh992

y

2. Create a wrapper shell script to perform the silent installation.

It should contain commands similar to the following:

#!/bin/bash

rpm -ivh  /downloads/oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386 > /xe_logs/XEsilentinstall.log

/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure <  /downloads/responsefile >> /xe_logs/XEsilentinstall.log

3. Run the wrapper script.

For details of the installation, see the XEsilentinstall.log file.

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