Uninstalling OBIEE 11g

Given the various issues with installing obiee, chances are at some point you'll wish to do a very careful uninstall. The sequence of uninstalling each component is not immediately obvious, but there is a sequence provided in the documentation:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/e10539/c5_deinstall.htm#CIHBIJFA

It's fairly straightforward, but assumes that you had a successful install in the first place which can cause problems if not.

If you run the OUI from the start menu you may find it tries to locate java from a temp folder and throws the error "the java runtime environment was not found at ...". If this is the case then run from the command line as per the documentation using the jreLoc parameter:

setup.exe -deinstall -jreLoc full_path_of_jre_or_jdk