When it’s time for you to next download the Oracle E-Business Suite media you better plan ahead as it’s getting big, really big, R12.2.6 is now over 83GB and could take a considerable amount of time if your downloading it interactively.
Fortunately Oracle’s e-delivery website can help out.
Select your Options
Firstly, uncheck all the ‘Oracle E-Business Suite Languages (12.2.0.0.0)’ and ‘Oracle E-Business Suite Languages (12.2.6.0.0)’ not required.
Now, if you are only performing a ‘VISION’ installation you can uncheck the all files labeled ‘Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.0 for Linux x86-64 Rapid Install Databases PROD – Disk X’.
Alternatively, if you don’t want the ‘VISION’ database uncheck all the files labeled ‘Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.0 for Linux x86-64 Rapid Install Databases VISION – Disk X’.
WGET Options
Now we have selected our files, look for ‘WGET Options’ in the bottom left corner and click the link.
This opens up a new window allowing you to download a wget script, hit ‘Download.sh’ to download the script to your desktop.
Great, you now have a script you can run on your Linux/Unix server to ‘pull’ back all the files, you now need to copy the wget script to your server using scp for example.
Once copied over, open the script in your editor of choice, and find the references to ‘SSO_USERNAME’ and ‘SSO_PASSWORD’.
Update these to your Oracle SSO (Single Sign-On) credentials, save the file and then change the permissions to 755 to make it executable and your now good to go.
# SSO username and password
#read -p ‘SSO User Name:’ SSO_USERNAME
#read -sp ‘SSO Password:’ SSO_PASSWORD
SSO_USERNAME=john.smith@oracle.com
SSO_PASSWORD=maryjane
Note: The WGET download script does not provide any feedback about whether or not the script was successful. Therefore you need to view the log file to verify the download was a successful or to troubleshoot any issues. The log file by default will be called wgetlog-.log, however you can change the name and location in the wget script file by setting the following:
# Log directory and file
LOGDIR=.
LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/wgetlog-`date +%m-%d-%y-%H:%M`.log
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