C.5 Installer Command Line Parameters

Installation Modes - Only One Mode Can be Specified

-i | -install

Launches the Installer in GUI mode. This is the default mode and is used if no mode is specified on the command line.

-silent

Install in silent mode. The Installer must be passed either a response file or command line variable value pairs.

-d | -deinstall

Launches the Installer in GUI mode for deinstallation.

-p | -prerequisite

Launches the Installer in GUI mode but only checks the prerequisites. No software is installed.

-v | -validate

Launches the Installer in GUI mode and performs all prerequisite and validation checking, but does not install any software.

-sv | -silentvalidate

Performs all prerequisite and validation checking in silent mode. You must pass the Installer either a response file or a series of command line variable value pairs.

Installation Options

-help | --help | --usage

Displays the usage parameters for the runInstaller command.

-invPtrLoc file

Pointer to the inventory location file. Replace file with the full path and name of the oraInst.loc file.

-response file | -responseFile file

Pointer to the response file. Replace file with the full path and name of the response file.

-jreLoc location

Pointer to the location where Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is installed. Replace location with the full path to the jre directory where your JRE is installed.

-logLevel level

Specify the level of logging performed by the Installer; all messages with a lower priority than the specified level will be recorded. Valid levels are:

• severe

• warning

• info

• config

• fine

• finer

• finest

-debug

Obtain debug information from the Installer.

-force

Allow the silent installation to proceed in a non-empty directory.

-printdiskusage

Log debugging information pertaining to disk usage.

-printmemory

Log debugging information pertaining to memory usage.

-printtime

Log debugging information pertaining to time usage. This command causes the timeTakentimestamp.log file to be created.

-waitforcompletion

Windows only - the Installer will wait for completion instead of spawning the Java engine and exiting.

-noconsole

Messages will not be displayed to the console window.

-ignoreSysPrereqs

Ignore the results of the system prerequisite checks and continue with the installation.

-executeSysPrereqs

Execute the system prerequisite checks only, then exit.

-paramFile file

Specify the full path to the oraparam.ini file. This file is the initialization file for the Installer. The default location of this file is Disk1/install/platform.

-novalidation

Disables all validation checking performed by the Installer.

-nodefaultinput

For the GUI install, several screens have information or default values pre-populated. Specifying this option disables this behavior so that no information or values are pre-populated.

Command Line Variables

Installer Variables

Installer variables are specified using varName=value. For example:

ORACLE_HOME=/scratch/install/Oracle_IDM1

Session Variables

Session variables are specified using session:varName=value