Tips and Hints for Oracle10g on Linux

To reinstall Oracle10g after a failed installation attempt, you might want to execute the following commands.

Make sure you first used the De-installation option in OUI.

su - root  export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1 . $ORACLE_HOME/bin/localconfig delete    # stops the Oracle CSS daemon and deletes configuration  rm -rf /u01/app/oracle/*  rm -f /etc/oraInst.loc /etc/oratab rm -rf /etc/oracle rm -f /etc/inittab.cssd rm -f /usr/local/bin/coraenv /usr/local/bin/dbhome /usr/local/bin/oraenv 

Make also sure to unset and uncomment ORACLE_HOME from ~oracle/.bash_profile

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