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Oracle® Database Client Installation Guide
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This chapter describes the different types of Oracle Client installations that you can perform, and issues that you should consider before installing the software. It includes information about the following topics:
The Oracle Client installation process consists of four parts:
Planning your installation: This chapter describes the Oracle products that you can install and issues that you must consider before starting the installation.
Completing pre-installation tasks: Chapter 2 describes pre-installation tasks that you must complete before installing the product.
Installing software: Chapter 3 describes how to use the Oracle Universal Installer to install this product.
Completing post-installation tasks: Chapter 4 describes recommended and required post-installation tasks.
You can choose different installation methods to install Oracle Client, as follows:
When you use the interactive method to install Oracle Client, the Installer displays a series of screens that enable you to specify all of the required information to install the Oracle Client software.
By creating a response file and specifying this file when you start the Installer, you can automate some or all of the Oracle Client installation. These automated installation methods are useful if you need to perform multiple installations on similarly configured systems or if the system where you want to install the software does not have X Window system software installed.
When you use a response file, you can run the Installer in the following modes, depending on whether you specify all of the required information or not:
Silent Mode: The Installer runs in silent mode if you use a response file that specifies all required information. None of the Installer screens are displayed.
Suppressed Mode: The Installer runs in suppressed mode if you do not specify all required information in the response file. The Installer displays only the screens that prompt for the information that you did not specify.
For more detailed information about these modes and about how to complete an installation using response files, see Appendix B.
You can choose one of the following installation types when installing Oracle Client:
Administrator: Enables applications to connect to an Oracle database on the local system or on a remote system. It also provides tools that allow you to administer an Oracle database.
Runtime: Enables applications to connect to an Oracle database on the local system or on a remote system.
Custom: Allows you to select individual components from the list of Administrator and Runtime components.
Instant Client: Enables you to install only the shared libraries required by Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Oracle C++ Call Interface (OCCI), or Java database connectivity (JDBC) OCI applications. This installation type requires much less disk space than the other Oracle Client installation types.
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See Also: For more information about Instant Client, see the Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide or the Oracle Database JDBC Developer's Guide and Reference. |
This section contains information that you should consider before deciding how to install this product. It contains the following sections:
The platform-specific hardware and software requirements included in this installation guide were current at the time this guide was published. However, because new platforms and operating system software versions might be certified after this guide is published, review the certification matrix on the OracleMetaLink Web site for the most up-to-date list of certified hardware platforms and operating system versions. The OracleMetaLink Web site is available at the following URL:
http://metalink.oracle.com
If you do not have a current Oracle Support Services contract, you can access the same information from the following Web site:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/support/metalink/content.html
This product supports multiple Oracle homes. This means that you can install this release or previous releases of the software more than once on the same system, in different Oracle home directories.
You must install this product into a new Oracle home directory. You cannot install products from one release of Oracle Client into an Oracle home directory of a different release. For example, you cannot install release 10.1 software into an existing Oracle9i Oracle home directory. If you attempt to install this release into an Oracle home directory that contains software from an earlier Oracle release, the installation fails.
You can install this release more than once on the same system provided that each installation is installed in a separate Oracle home directory.
