How To Find RDBMS patchsets on My Oracle Support

How To Find RDBMS patchsets on My Oracle Support [ID 438049.1]
Modified 05-NOV-2010 Type HOWTO Status PUBLISHED
In this Document
Goal
Solution
References

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 8.1.7.4 to 11.2.0.2 - Release: 8.1.7 to 11.2
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Oracle Server - Standard Edition - Version: 8.1.7.4 to 11.2.0.2 - Release: 8.1 to 11.2
Oracle Server - Personal Edition - Version: 8.1.7.4 to 11.2.0.2 - Release: 8.1 to 11.2 only to windows platform
Oracle Client - Version: 8.1.7.4 to 11.2.0.2 - Release: 8.1 to 11.2
Goal

This is a summary of the Database Server patchsets available in My Oracle Support . The intention is to keep this matrix up to date with the common patchset releases for the main OS platforms. Please note that this is a generic OS platform note and is possible that a given patchset number is not available for your platform.


This list should be valid for the most common OS platforms such as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows. The patch NUMBER is valid and generally the same for all OS platforms, though the NAME of the file downloaded will be different for each OS platform.

Solution

1. How to download a patchset from Metalink?
Go to "Patches & Updates" menu option
Type the number of the patch that you want to download in the patch name of number field , that should be some of the following:
Patch Description
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10098816 Patchset 11.2.0.2 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 11.2.0.2 Please note that 11.2 Patch Sets 11.2.0.2 and higher are supplied as full releases.See Note:1189783.1 for details.
6890831 Patchset 11.1.0.7 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 11.1.0.7
8202632 Patchset 10.2.0.5 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.2.0.5
6810189 Patchset 10.2.0.4 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.2.0.4
5337014 Patchset 10.2.0.3 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.2.0.3
4547817 Patchset 10.2.0.2 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.2.0.2
4505133 Patchset 10.1.0.5 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.1.0.5
4163362 Patchset 10.1.0.4 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.1.0.4
3761843 Patchset 10.1.0.3 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 10.1.0.3
4547809 Patchset 9.2.0.8 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.8
4163445 Patchset 9.2.0.7 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.7
3948480 Patchset 9.2.0.6 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.6
3501955 Patchset 9.2.0.5 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.5
3095277 Patchset 9.2.0.4 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.4
2761332 Patchset 9.2.0.3 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.3
2632931 Patchset 9.2.0.2 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.2.0.2
3301544 Patchset 9.0.1.5 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.0.1.5
2517300 Patchset 9.0.1.4 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 9.0.1.4
2376472 Patchset 8.1.7.4 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATABASE SERVER 8.1.7.4
Select your OS platform., you can choose 5 platform as same time .
Click "Search " button.
You can save the patchset media to the hard disk on your computer.

3. Additional Instructions.

c. Client Patchset.



For database and client upgrade use the same patch set. There is no separate patch set for client


a. UNIX specific instructions:

Often the patch was downloaded to a windows PC, and you should transfer the file to the UNIX server in binary mode using ftp tools or similar.
Double-check the size and cksum of the downloaded file on the UNIX system.
Uncompress the zip file using the unzip tools under the UNIX system. Please don't use any unzip arguments; for instance unzip -a could corrupt the Patch set Media.
Open the Readme.html file and follow it to install the Patch Set.
b. Windows specific instructions:

Check the size of the downloaded file.
Uncompress the zip file using the unzip tools. Please don't use any unzip arguments if you want to use the unzip command line tools; for instance unzip -a could corrupt the Patch set Media.
Open the Readme.html file and read instructions to install the Patch Set.