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I recently applied the latest RUP for Release 12 at a client that is in the midst of a new R12 installation.  I thought I’d recap my experience.

The 12.0.6 patch was released on Friday, November 7th.  We were alerted to it because we ran a fresh version of patchsets.sh during the week and it indicated that everything we had installed was superseded by an unreleased patch.  That got our curiosity going and we checked around Metalink finding that RUP6 was imminent.

The environment was using RedHat Linux 64 bit.  We had recently upgraded the Oracle database from 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.4.  They were already on RUP5 and we had recently applied the October CPU and the October Critical Patch Collection patches.  Bottom-line, we were very up-to-date.

Our environment consisted of two Application Servers and a single DB Server.  We were using ASM (10.2.0.4) but not using RAC.  We also had a shared APPL_TOP using OCFS2 for the two Application Servers.

You must start by applying the pre-requisite adpatch, R12 AD.A Delta 6 (Patch 7305520, Doc 736655.1).  It’s about 1.4Mb in size.  After downloading it there was a script to run for adgrants listed in the Patch 7305520 README.  We ran it, the adgrants.sql script, (as sysdba) to grant privileges to selected SYS objects and create PL/SQL profiler objects. We then applied patch 7305520 with adpatch.

Next we downloaded the RUP6 (Patch 6728000, Doc 743368.1).  It’s a big one at 2Gb in size.  It is multi-language but since we had an English-only installation we just downloaded the Linux86 version from Metalink.  It comes packaged in four files:

p6728000_R12_LINUX_1of4.zip  498Mb

p6728000_R12_LINUX_2of4.zip 546Mb

p6728000_R12_LINUX_4of4.zip 503Mb

p6728000_R12_LINUX_4of4.zip 429Mb

Looking at the README, it’s a straight-forward install with adpatch.  However if you have HR implemented there are some post-install steps which I didn’t have to do.  More information about that is in Document 145837.1 on Metalink.

The next step was to install the RUP6 Help Files (Patch 7109200, Doc 743368.1).  This is another multi-language patch where we only had to install the Generic version.  This is a simple adpatch install with no pre/post requirements.

In summary, it was a fairly simple patch exercise for our environment.  Hope yours is the same!

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