Installer cannot access the oraInventory

Ran into another interesting little challenge today. While installing SOA Suite onto a machine which already had another, completely separate Oracle product installation on it (albeit under a different userid), the installer helpfully reported that it could not access /home/oracle/oraInventory.

To get around this, I went and copied the /etc/oraInst.loc file to /etc/fmwInst.loc and updated the contents to point to a new directory in my ‘fmw’ user’s home directory, and then ran the installer with the option to point to this new file:

runInstaller -invPtrLoc /etc/fmwInst.loc

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is a Developer Evangelist at Oracle, focusing on microservices and AI. Mark has served as a Section Leader in Stanford's Code in Place program that has introduced tens of thousands of people to the joy of programming, he is a published author, a reviewer and contributor, a content creator and a lifelong learner. He enjoys traveling, meeting people and learning about foods and cultures of the world. Mark has worked at Oracle since 2006 and before that at IBM since 1994.

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