Oracle runInstaller 's Usage

Usage:
runInstaller  [-options] [()*]

Where options include:
  -clusterware .crs, 
        Version of Cluster ready services installed.

  -crsLocation  
        Used only for cluster installs, specifies the path to the crs home location. Specifying this overrides CRS information obtained from central inventory.

  -invPtrLoc  
        Unix only. To point to a different inventory location. The orainst.loc file contains:
inventory_loc=
inst_group=<>

  -jreLoc  
        Path where Runtime Environment is installed. OUI cannot be run without it.

  -logLevel  
        To filter log messages that have a lesser priority level than . Valid options are: severe, warning, info, config, fine, finer, finest, basic, general, detailed, trace. The use of basic, general, detailed, trace is deprecated.

  -paramFile  
        Specify location of oraparam.ini file to be used by OUI.

  -responseFile  
        Specifies the response file and path to use.

  -sourceLoc   
        To specify the shiphome location.

  -addLangs 
        To add new languages to an already installed product.

  -addNode 
        For adding node(s) to the installation.

  -attachHome 
        For attaching homes to the OUI inventory.

  -cfs 
        Indicates that the Oracle home specified is on cluster file system (shared). This is mandatory when '-local' is specified so that Oracle Universal Installer can register the home appropriately into the inventory.

  -clone 
        For making an Oracle Home copy match its current environment.

  -debug 
        For getting the debug information from OUI.

  -deinstall 
        For deinstall operations.

  -detachHome 
        For detaching homes from the OUI inventory without deleting inventory directory inside Oracle home.

  -enableRollingUpgrade 
        Used in cluster environment, to enable upgrade of a product on a subset of nodes (on which the product was installed).

  -executeSysPrereqs 
        Execute system pre-requisite checks and exit.

  -force 
        Allowing silent mode installation into a non-empty directory.

  -help 
        Displays above usage.

   -ignorePatchConflicts 
        Ignore all conflicts with existing interim patches during an upgrade. The conflicting interim patches are removed from the home.

  -ignoreSysPrereqs 
        For ignoring the results of the system pre-requisite checks.

  -local 
        Performs the operation on the local node irrespective of the cluster nodes specified.

  -printdiskusage 
        Log debug information for disk usage.

  -printmemory 
        Log debug information for memory usage.

  -printtime 
        Log debug information for time usage.

  -record -destinationFile  
        For record mode operation, information is recorded in the destination file path.

  -removeallfiles 
        For removing the home directory after deinstallation of all the components.

   -removeAllPatches 
        Remove all interim patches from the home

  -silent 
        For silent mode operations, the inputs can be a response file or a list of command line variable value pairs.

  -updateNodeList 
        For updating node list for this home in the OUI inventory.

  -waitforcompletion 
        For . setup.exe will wait for completion instead of spawning the java engine and exiting.

  -nobackground 
         Do not show background image

  -noclusterEnabled 
        No cluster nodes specified.

  -noconsole 
        For suppressing display of messages to console. Console is not allocated.

  -nowarningonremovefiles 
        To disable the warning message before removal of home directory.

  -nowait 
        For windows. Do not wait for user to hit Enter on the console after the task (install etc.) is complete.

  -formCluster 
        To install the Oracle clusterware in order to form. the cluster.

  -remotecp  
        Unix specific option. Used only for cluster installs, specifies the path to the remote copy program on the local cluster node.

  -remoteshell  
        Unix specific option. Used only for cluster installs, specifies the path to the remote shell program on the local cluster node.

Command Line Variables Usage
  Command line variables are specified using ; for example:
    [ session: | compName: | compName:version: ]variableName=" valueOfVariable"]

   Session/Installer variables are specified using:
          [session:]varName=value
    Ex 1: session:ORACLE_HOME_NAME="OraHome"
    Ex 2: ORACLE_HOME_NAME="OraHome"
    The lookup order is session:varName then just varName. The session prefix is used to avoid ambiguity.

   Component variables are specified using:
          [compInternalName:[Version:]]varName
    Ex 1: oracle.comp1:1.0.1:varName="VarValue"
    Ex 2: oracle.comp1:varName="VarValue"
    The lookup order is compInternalName:Version:varName, then compInternalName:varName, then just varName.