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I am trying to install the Oracle client on my development workstation (Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit). The database server itself is Oracle 10.1, for which there is not a 64-bit client, so I am trying both 10.2 and 11.1 clients.

Both fail in essentially the same way - prerequisite checks pass, it says it is "Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from c:\users\......."
Then that window closes and nothing happens. The Universal Installer never appears.

The 10.2 client initially fails prerequisite check, so I set compatibility mode to Windows Vista to get past that. (11.1 client prereqs did not fail at all).

In both 10.2, 11.1, I set it to Run As Administrator.
I tried 11.1 both with and without running in Compatibility mode for Windows Vista.
All of them gave the above result.

Some of the Oracle documentation indicates there should be a log file in Program Files\Oracle. I have checked both "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)", neither one contains an Oracle folder.
In the folder where it said it was going to launch the Oracle Universal Installer from, I located an "installActions(timestamp).log" file.

For the 10.2 attempts, this contained something like:
Using paramFile: C:\temp\client\install\oraparam.ini


Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 or 6.0. Actual 6.0
Passed

Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 4294967296 Passed

All installer requirements met.


The commandline for unzip:
C:\temp\client\install\unzip -qqqo ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.5.0.11.0/1/DataFiles/"*.jar" -d "C:\Users\aclauss\AppData\Local\Temp\OraInstall2009-10-02_02-40-59PM"
The commandline for unzip:
C:\temp\client\install\unzip -qqqo ..\stage\Components\oracle.swd.oui\10.2.0.4.0\1\DataFiles\/"*.jar" -d "C:\Users\aclauss\AppData\Local\Temp\OraInstall2009-10-02_02-40-59PM"
The commandline for unzip:
C:\temp\client\install\unzip -qqqo ..\stage\Components\oracle.swd.oui.core\10.2.0.4.0\1\DataFiles\/"*.jar" -d "C:\Users\aclauss\AppData\Local\Temp\OraInstall2009-10-02_02-40-59PM"

The number of files bootstrapped for the jre is 551.

The number of files bootstrapped for the oui is 72.

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For the 11.1 installation attempts, it simply contained:
Using paramFile: C:\temp\client\install\oraparam.ini


Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 4294967296 Passed

The commandline for unzip:
C:\temp\client\install\unzip -qqqo ..\stage\Components\oracle.jdk\1.5.0.11.0\1\DataFiles/"*.jar" -d "C:\Users\aclauss\AppData\Local\Temp\OraInstall2009-10-02_03-23-00PM"
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I can locate no actual error messages. This same hardware configuration previously had the Oracle client installed (10.2) on Vista 64-bit. Did a complete reformat to install Windows 7.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Adam

Edited by: user4876218 on Oct 2, 2009 1:31 PM