uninstalling programs

[bookouri]

Im working with my first SUN server. I know this is probably a dumb question, but am I right in this? In a winnt environment I have to uninstall programs to get rid of all the bits that were stuffed into system32, all the registry changes and all that stuff. Is there anything like that with Solaris? for example, I have an oracle filesystem mounted... if I want to uninstall oracle is it as simple as just deleting the directory tree where oracle is stored? are there other "places" like in windows that I have to clean up if I delete software...

sorry to be so ignorant of this.. I am doing some reading but these are the kinds of things the reference books dont seem to get into..

thanks for any comments..

 

[harris79]

Generally speaking simply removing the directory tree is all you need to do. There is nothing like registry or system32 in Solaris.

In the case of oracle, a few files are normally in /var/opt/oracle (oratab, tnsnames.ora, listener.ora) and /opt/bin (coraenv, dbhome, oraenv) these too should be removed. If these files are not in these locations use find to find them.

Some software can be removed using admintool, this is similar to the remove software option in the control panel of a NT machine, I,m not sure if Oracle can be removed in this way.

It is also worth removing the Oracle user and the DBA group both of these can be done through admintool.

Steve

 

[bookouri]

thanks, Im really feeling stupid right about now. Im glad to find I wasnt too far off on that one.