Solved Installing Oracle 10 developer

[aseeker84]

I have tried several times to install the Oracle 10g developer and each time I get errors that say the registry name for some files is > 1024 characters long. I pick to ignore, but when the install is done it does not install all the programs. I really just need forms and reports. Forms seems to work, but the program for reports never gets installed. Can anyone help me with this?

 

[gregrocker]

Are you running installer as Administrator?

What I do in a case like this is google the verbatim error text to see how others have solved it .

It's a major program so also likely has tech support that knows the error.

 

[aseeker84]

I am running as admin, plus I'm running as compatible with XP service pack 2. I don't even know if that is right. I saw that on instructions for doing the install from another thread. I've tried several different options. All of them throw the error that the environment path is too long.

 

[gregrocker]

So what does google return for the verbatim error? If you'd posted it verbatim I would have already skimmed the results and found out what's been done about it before.

 

[aseeker84]

I figured it out. I had to remove some junk from my path variable, then it installed fine.