packaging Oracle client installation

[Ray Porter]

Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle Windows
client components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the Universal
Installer, by a client install application (for example, InstallShield or
something home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this packaged
installation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines or
references to documentation on how to get started with this?

Thanks,
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Ray Porter
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[Andy Hassall]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 09:54:58 -0400, "Ray Porter" <ray_porter@unc.edu> wrote:
Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle Windowsclient components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the UniversalInstaller, by a client install application (for example, InstallShield orsomething home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this packagedinstallation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines orreferences to documentation on how to get started with this?

Instant Client's probably your best bet here, see:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html

The ODBC supplement has batch files for doing the setup - if it's like the OCI
stuff, there's no sign of Universal Installer.

It's a lot smaller than a normal client install but it's still not exactly
lightweight - you're looking at 32MB.

I haven't used the ODBC parts of Instant Client - just the OCI ones, and the
JDBC Thin driver (which is particularly convenient as it's very small, and can
be easily deployed over Java Web Start along with a Java application).

--
Andy Hassall / <andy@andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk>
<http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space> Space: disk usage analysis tool

[Ray Porter]

Thanks, Andy. I'll take a look.

Ray

"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message
news:b3fi71hceu34a0he72dapnhsmo71f6i3f7@4ax.com... On Wed, 4 May 2005 09:54:58 -0400, "Ray Porter" <ray_porter@unc.edu>
wrote:Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle
Windowsclient components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the UniversalInstaller, by a client install application (for example, InstallShield orsomething home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this packagedinstallation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines orreferences to documentation on how to get started with this? Instant Client's probably your best bet here, see: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html The ODBC supplement has batch files for doing the setup - if it's like
the OCI stuff, there's no sign of Universal Installer. It's a lot smaller than a normal client install but it's still not
exactly lightweight - you're looking at 32MB. I haven't used the ODBC parts of Instant Client - just the OCI ones, and
the JDBC Thin driver (which is particularly convenient as it's very small, and
can be easily deployed over Java Web Start along with a Java application). -- Andy Hassall / <andy@andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk> <http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space> Space: disk usage analysis tool

[Ray Porter]

Hi Andy,
I've taken a quick look and it looks like this is just for 10g. We're still
on 9i though we will move to 10g at some point in the next few months. I
also don't think it deploys the OLEDB driver for Oracle and we need that
more than the ODBC drivers.

Ray



"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message
news:b3fi71hceu34a0he72dapnhsmo71f6i3f7@4ax.com... On Wed, 4 May 2005 09:54:58 -0400, "Ray Porter" <ray_porter@unc.edu>
wrote:Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle
Windowsclient components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the UniversalInstaller, by a client install application (for example, InstallShield orsomething home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this packagedinstallation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines orreferences to documentation on how to get started with this? Instant Client's probably your best bet here, see: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html The ODBC supplement has batch files for doing the setup - if it's like
the OCI stuff, there's no sign of Universal Installer. It's a lot smaller than a normal client install but it's still not
exactly lightweight - you're looking at 32MB. I haven't used the ODBC parts of Instant Client - just the OCI ones, and
the JDBC Thin driver (which is particularly convenient as it's very small, and
can be easily deployed over Java Web Start along with a Java application). -- Andy Hassall / <andy@andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk> <http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space> Space: disk usage analysis tool

[Rauf Sarwar]

Ray Porter wrote: Hi Andy, I've taken a quick look and it looks like this is just for 10g.
We're still on 9i though we will move to 10g at some point in the next few
months. I also don't think it deploys the OLEDB driver for Oracle and we need
that more than the ODBC drivers. Ray "Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message news:b3fi71hceu34a0he72dapnhsmo71f6i3f7@4ax.com... On Wed, 4 May 2005 09:54:58 -0400, "Ray Porter"
<ray_porter@unc.edu> wrote:Is it possible to package the necessary files, etc., so the Oracle Windowsclient components (ODBC, OLEDB) can be installed without the
UniversalInstaller, by a client install application (for example,
InstallShield orsomething home grown)? Is it also possible to deploy this
packagedinstallation via the web? If so, does anyone have any guidelines
orreferences to documentation on how to get started with this? Instant Client's probably your best bet here, see:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html The ODBC supplement has batch files for doing the setup - if it's
like the OCI stuff, there's no sign of Universal Installer. It's a lot smaller than a normal client install but it's still not exactly lightweight - you're looking at 32MB. I haven't used the ODBC parts of Instant Client - just the OCI
ones, and the JDBC Thin driver (which is particularly convenient as it's very
small, and can be easily deployed over Java Web Start along with a Java
application). -- Andy Hassall / <andy@andyh.co.uk> / <http://www.andyh.co.uk> <http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space> Space: disk usage analysis
tool

You can investigate the silent install option. It should be documented
in install guide. Look at client*.rsp files located in Disk1\Response
directory.

Regards
/Rauf