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There is no command-line installation for any release 8i and higher. I've
filed this enhancement request several times with Oracle and haven't seen any
progress so far. There is an installation method that does not present a GUI
interface, but it still requires an X11 server to be running somewhere so that
it can initialize the Java classes associated with the GUI display. At least
that's the explanation I received from Oracle Support.
I've been in a similar situation and what I did was to use another server with
similar configuration (at least the same OS release and patch level). Install
onto this alternate server and then, as the root user, use a command like tar
or cpio to archive the entire ORACLE_HOME and oraInventory directories, copy
those archives to the destination server and unpack them in the same locations
they were in on the source server. Once everything is unpacked in the proper
locations, I usually then relink all the executables (using "relink all") to
ensure proper operation.
Note that the procedure above will wipe out any oraInventory information you
already have on the destination host. Likewise, if you have additional
ORACLE_HOMEs on the source host, unless you specifically use a different
oraInventory for this install, the oraInventory will possibly contain
information from other ORACLE_HOMEs that may not be installed on the
destination server.
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