17 Removing Oracle Database Gateway

If you decide to remove the Oracle Database Gateway on Microsoft Windows (32-bit), then perform the following steps:

1. Insert the gateway product installation media.

2. Start the Oracle Universal Installer by running the Oracle Universal Installer executable, setup.exe:

   1. From the Start menu, select Run.

   2. Enter the path of the executable file name. For example:

      D: \Disk1\setup.exe
      

3. Step through the Oracle Universal Installer. Use the prompts listed in Table 17-1, "Steps to Remove the Gateway Using Oracle Universal Installer" as a guide for removing, following the instructions in the Response column.

   Table 17-1 Steps to Remove the Gateway Using Oracle Universal Installer

   Prompt	Response
   1. Oracle Universal Installer: Welcome	Click Deinstall Products.
   2. Inventory	You may either choose to remove all products that you may have installed at the time of your original gateway installation, or you may choose to deinstall only an instance of the gateway. To remove all products: Select the ORACLE_HOME where the gateway was installed. Click Remove... To remove only one instance of the gateway, expand the rows within the ORACLE_HOME recursively until you arrive at the folder. Click Remove...
   3. Confirmation	Click Yes.
   4. Inventory	Click Close.
   5. Oracle Universal Installer: Welcome	Click Cancel.
   6. Exit	Click Yes.

   
   

4. The the gateway is now removed.

   When the Oracle Universal Installer confirms that the deinstallation has ended, verify that the removal procedure was successful. To do this, read the contents of the deinstallation log file, which is located in the C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs directory.

   The default file name is InstallActionsYYYY-MM-DD_HH-mm-SS-AM/PM.log, where:

   YYYY is year

   MM is month

   DD is day

   HH is hour

   mm is minute

   SS is seconds

   AM/PM is daytime or evening

   These variables in the log file name represent the date and time the product was removed.

5. The only files that are removed are those that were copied to the ORACLE_HOME directory during the gateway installation. You must remove any other related files manually, including deleting listener.ora and tnsnames.ora entries relating to the gateway, dropping database links.