Re: can I de-install after removing the ORACLE_HOME software?

See:
How To Clean Up The Inventory After Deleting The Oracle Home Manually Using OS Commands("rm-rf " or other)? (Doc ID 435219.1)

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/2016 11:45 AM, Ray Stell wrote:
>
> On 6/9/16 10:29 AM, sumit Tyagi wrote:
>
> Dont make any manual change in inventory file... you can use the above
> command suggested and that should work .
>
> Why not?
>
> I've had oracle support people tell me to edit it during cleanup of
> patching train wrecks. The file describes homes and if the home is gone,
> don't describe it?
>
>
> Because it's so easy to mess up. The file also describes dependencies, and
> if you mess it up, you may end up with an unusable system. Besides, editing
> the XML file is not supported. If something happens, you're on your own.
> Oracle guarantees for the installer and support will gladly help you if
> something happens as a result of an installer action. I've used Oracle
> Support many times, I've even been providing it a very long time ago, and I
> know the value of having support at hand very, very well. And if you edit
> it manually, you don't have support at hand. It's the same thing as with
> installing Oracle on Fedora: it's doable, but if you do it, you're on your
> own.
>
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>
>

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