Oracle Universal Installer Concepts Guide - Oracle Documentation

Deinstalling Products
Using the Oracle Universal Installer Exit Codes
If you are starting and stopping Universal Installer programmatically (for example,
by invoking Universal Installer using a response file), you may need to consider the
exit codes generated by Universal Installer and perform a particular action
depending on the code Universal Installer returns.
TheOracleUniversalInstallerreturnsoneofthefollowingexitcodes:
Code Description
0 All installations were successful
1 All installation were successful but some optional configuration tools failed
-1 At least one installation failed
Note that:
1. This feature will not work if the Oracle Universal Installer is running in
"bootstrap" mode. In this case setup.exe/runInstaller will just launch the
JRE process and return immediately without waiting for the exit code. The
Oracle Universal Installer will be running in "bootstrap" mode if the following
line exists in the file "oraparam.ini":
BOOTSTRAP=TRUE
2. If you exit without installing any products (for example if you exit from the
"Welcome" screen), the exit code will be -1.
Deinstalling Products
The following sections describe how to remove products you have installed with
theOracleUniversalInstaller.
Removing Oracle Products With the Oracle Universal Installer
A deinstallation can be performed before making your selection of products to
install or after a successful install.
To remove Oracle products, perform the following steps:
1. Start the Oracle Universal Installer from a CD-ROM or
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