Problem in Oracle 19c installation on Windows 10

Question

I am trying to Run setup.exe as part of Oracle 19c installation on windows 10.

I have downloaded the zip file and extracted it in a folder inside C drive.

When I try to run setup.exe by right click and run as administrator option, a command prompt just flashes for a split of a second and nothings starts after that.

Vertebrate

Answer 1

I have found the solution:

1. After extraction, rename the extracted directory to db_home
2. Move the db_home directory to the root of your Hard Drive ( in my case its C:\db_home )
3. run setup.exe as an administrator.

You will see a cmd window pop up and then the red window with the Oracle symbol in it.

Do NOT skip step 2nd step as that is how I was finally able to get it to install. This also worked with 19c.

Vertebrate

Unfortunately, the 18c and 19c Installation Guide for Wiindows is about as poorly written and confusing piece of oracle docs I've ever seen, and I've been at this sincd 1995. After making sure you've met hardware and sofware reqs, it boils down to this: Create your ORACLE_HOME with the os 'mkdir' command. 2) Unzip the distribution into the created ORACLE_HOME. 3) run setup.exe from the unzipped directory in ORACLE_HOME. – Parlin

God, hate oracle... Thanks for your tip, step 2 saved me – Alumina

In my case, I just needed to remove space from the directory name. No need to move the directory, or run as administrator. – Nottage

@Nottage you are a life saver. Spent hours on this. All it was. – Warmhearted

Thank you so much. This has been so helpful. I spent a whole day trying to figure this out in order to connect to an Oracle DB with Power BI. – Fons

Answer 2

I also faced the problem. After seeing this thread, in a while, I figured it out. Apparently, keeping the db_home folder inside a folder that has space in its name caused me the same issue.

Eyeball

Answer 3

I had the same problem and read something about problems with extremely long paths in packages and using the native Windows unzip utility. I unzipped the package using 7-zip instead and it solved the problem.

Jap

Answer 4

I was trying to install from d partition and does not work. Then I just move all the installation folder to c partition and it works fine.

Absentee

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Answer 5

I'm an Oracle DBA and I don't know when the change happened or what the source of issue is, but when installing the Oracle client you can no longer have a space " " in the path for the Oracle setup.exe file.

It doesn't matter what utility extracted the files or what drive or path is used (except there is and always has been an issue with very long path names) - it just cannot have a space in the path.

I hope this helps.

Maiga

Answer 6

This issue has a simple solution:

1. When we run the Setup file we see a flash CMD in the background...
2. Your System Environment variable path(DB home) has Space in it.
3. It should be no space(db_home)

This personally works for me to install.

Mcdavid

Answer 7

Yes, I have faced the same issue and as a solution I have removed the space from my parent folder where I have kept the software folder i.e. from F:\Database\Oracle 19 c\WINDOWS.X64_193000_db_home to F:\Database\Oracle19c\WINDOWS.X64_193000_db_home

It fixed and the installation started working for me without any issues. So it seems we no need to save the Oracle19c software file in C drive.

Thank You!

Peasecod