Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER.

Article tell’s about using lynx (text based web browser available on linux) to generate the cookies file which can be then used with wget to download software. But when I tried to use lynx , it repeatedly gave error for javascript. On searching net , I found a firefox extension “Export Cookies” which creates wget compatible cookies.

You can find the extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8154/

After you install the extension, clear your cookies and then login to otn.oracle.com and sign in. After you have done this, go to Tools -> Export cookies and save the file.

Then you can copy the file to your server and use wget to download the software. Syntax is

wget –load-cookies=cookies.txt <otn_url>

E.g To download 11gr2 Grid infrastructure software for linux x86-64 bit

wget –load-cookies=cookies.txt http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle11g/R2/linux.x64_11gR2_grid.zip

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10 Comments for “Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server”

dev says:
May 29, 2010 at 11:19 pm

Brilliant Amit.

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- Amit says:
  May 30, 2010 at 8:00 am
  
  Thanks Dev.
  
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jametong says:
May 30, 2010 at 9:53 am

Very good tips, so many times, I have to use links (a text based url browser to download something on linux command line. thx.

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bob says:
May 30, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Nice

Bob

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Raju Angani says:
May 30, 2010 at 9:33 pm

Plugin for FF 3.6
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/66579/

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Bradd Piontek says:
June 2, 2010 at 8:35 pm

Great update to Pythian’s blog. I had been meaning to write something similar for downloading from edelivery.oracle.com and My oracle Support (no cookies involved, and is much simpler , works like a champ. We’ll see how my June shapes up for blogging).

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inoideas says:
July 10, 2010 at 5:36 pm

I tried but got the below error msg

wget .load-cookies=cookies.txt –user-agent Mozilla/4.0 http://oracle-updates-intl.oracle.com/ARUConnect/B53824-01_3of4.zip
–06:03:49– http://.load-cookies=cookies.txt/
=> `index.html’
Resolving .load-cookies=cookies.txt… failed: Name or service not known.
–06:03:49– http://oracle-updates-intl.oracle.com/ARUConnect/B53824-01_3of4.zip
=> `B53824-01_3of4.zip’
Resolving oracle-updates-intl.oracle.com… 203.77.185.23, 203.77.185.24
Connecting to oracle-updates-intl.oracle.com|203.77.185.23|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 400 Bad Request
06:03:49 ERROR 400: Bad Request.

where do i need to upload cookies.txt

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- Amit says:
  July 13, 2010 at 9:38 am
  
  Upload the cookies.txt file in same directory from where you are running the wget command.
  Did you try downloading from OTN site ? Not sure if it works on the above site..
  
  -Amit
  
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Deepak says:
July 19, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Thanks a lot Amit. Very useful doc. Please update something more like this.

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