Oracle Universal Installer Concepts Guide - Oracle Documentation

Deinstalling Products
Note: Make sure the new version is marked to replace the old version.
In the .prp, you can specify the version range to be replaced. For
example,theoldversionshouldbeinthereplacerangeofthenew
version.
Silent Deinstallation
With Universal Installer you can not only perform silent installations, as described
in "Installing Using a Response File" on page 1-4, but you can also perform silent
deinstallations. A silent deinstallation allows you to remove Oracle applications
from your system without using the Universal Installer graphical user interface.
You can choose to display no dialog boxes or prompts to the user, or you can
selectively avoid displaying certain dialog boxes that are normally used during a
deinstallation.
Immediately Displaying the Inventory Dialog Box
Use the following command on a Windows computer to immediately display the
Inventory dialog box, which allows the user to select items for deinstallation
without navigating the Universal Installer startup screen:
setup.exe -deinstall
On a UNIX computer, use the following command to produce the same result:
runInstaller -deinstall
Hiding the Inventory Dialog Box
If you would like to hide the inventory dialog box from the user during a
deinstallation, you can specify the items to be deinstalled in the DEINSTALL_LIST
parameter of the response file. For more information about response files, see
"Installing Using a Response File" on page 1-4.
For information about the DEINSTALL_LIST parameter, see Chapter 3,
"Customizing and Creating Response Files".
As with other response file parameters, you can also specify the DEINSTALL_LIST
parameter on the Universal Installer command line. For example, on a Windows
computer, enter:
runInstaller -deinstall DEINSTALL_LIST={"component1","1.0.1.2"}
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