6 Deinstalling Oracle Transparent Gateway

If you decide to deinstall the Oracle Transparent Gateway, perform the following steps:

1. Stop the following process: Oracle Net Listener using the following command:

   ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl stop
   
   

2. Log in as the oracle user:

   $ su - oracle
   
   

3. Set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to specify the path of the Oracle home that you want to remove:

   • Bourne, Bash, or Korn shell:

     $ ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
     
     

   • C shell:

     $ setenv ORACLE_HOME /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
     
     

4. Start the Installer as follows:

   $ $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller
   
   

5. Step through the Oracle Universal Installer. Use the prompts listed in Table 6-1, "Steps to DeInstall the Oracle Transparent Gateway Using Oracle Universal Installer" as a guide for deinstallation, following the instructions in the Response column.

   Table 6-1 Steps to DeInstall the Oracle Transparent Gateway Using Oracle Universal Installer

   Prompt	Response
   1. Oracle Universal Installer: Welcome	Click Deinstall Products.
   2. Inventory	You may either choose to deinstall 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 Oracle Transparent Gateway. To deinstall all products: Select the ORACLE_HOME where Oracle Transparent Gateway was installed. Click Remove... To deinstall only one instance of Oracle Transparent 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.

   
   

6. The Oracle Transparent Gateway is now deinstalled.

   When the Oracle Universal Installer confirms that the deinstallation has ended, verify that the deinstallation 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 de-installed.