Patchset Silent Installation

Method 1:

../runInstaller -silent  -ignoreSysprereqs  \
-responseFile /u01/Disk1/response/patchset.rsp  \
ORACLE_HOME="/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.5" \
ORACLE_HOME_NAME="Ora10gHome" \
SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT=false \
DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=true


Method 2:

Update below setting on response file

ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.5
ORACLE_HOME_NAME=Ora10gHome
SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT=false
DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=true

Then invoke runinstaller


./runInstaller -silent -responseFile  /u01/Disk1/response/patchset.rsp  -ignoreSysprereqs







Error & Workaround:

If you don't modify SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT & DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES values then below error will be encountered

SEVERE:Values for the following variables could not be obtained from the command line or response file(s):
  MYORACLESUPPORT_USERNAME(MyOracleSupportUsername)
Silent install cannot continue.