Oracle silent install on Linux.

DB - Oracle 11gR2
OS - Oracle Linux 5.6

Sometimes it is required to install Oracle without the GUI. Oracle provides silent install capability for this, where installation is totally controlled by a response file.

Response files can be generated while performing a GUI installation using OUI by starting the  runInstaller with –record and –destinationFile options as below,

 ./runInstaller -record -destinationFile <Path_to_Create_Response_File>  

This will record whatever the options selected on GUI installation and store them in response file in given path.

Also you can use sample response file and edit them. I have attached the response file used for this example. The options on the file are self-explanatory so you can edit them to match your environment.

Once you have a proper response file silent installation is straight forward task. Also oracle provides some runInstaller options to manage the setup as well.

So using the attached response file I have used the below command,

 ./runInstaller –silent –ignoreSysPrereqs –responsefile /SOFT/db.rsp  

Here only addition option I have used is the ignoreSysPrereqs which ignores pre-request failures.

During a silent installation oracle will create 3 log files in oraInventory/logs directory as shown in below image.


Here .err file list fatal errors which stops the process, .out shows the warnings and .log is the common log file.

.log will include completion details in step wise until 100%. .out ends with a request run the permission scripts as root upon successful installation.

Example response file - Download

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