Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Pre-requisite checks fails and runInstaller quits

While installing an Oracle software or an oracle patchset runInstaller checks the OS version and may sometimes quit saying that the OS version failed the pre requisite check. to work around the problem, perform the following steps.

- change directory to "install" under the installation disk.- open the oraparam.ini file.
- Search for the following line(s) and comment it using a '#' symbol. some oraparam.ini files may have only some of the lines listed below. Comment them.

[Certified Versions] #You can customise error message shown for failure through CERTIFIED_VERSION_FAILURE_MESSAGE
#Solaris=5.8,5.9
#Windows=4.0,5.0,5.1,5.2
#Linux=redhat-3
#HPUX=B.11.11
#Decunix=V5.1A,V5.1
#AIX=5.1.0.0

- Restart runInstaller.

Now the runInstaller will not perform any OS version checks and proceeds to installation window.

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