Downloading OBIEE virtual ready machine fails.

Question

I have tried 6 times now to manually download and run the OBIEE Samples , all my attempts have been futile. I have tried using the download manager, I have also tried using google chrome and firefox Mozilla every time I unzip the file using the 7zip software I get an error that says,

crc failed (image above) I can actually extract it and see the ova file but once I try to import it into Virtual box I get an error that say the image is corrupt?  can anyone offer any suggestions? I would really appreciate any guidance. I was able to complete this on a windows 7 machine but on my windows 10 machine I have had no luck.

Gianni Ceresa · Answer

By memory the latest SA available is one of the first releases of OBIEE 12c, a very old (6 years?) and not supported anymore version.

And Oracle was supposed to have removed that download.

Installing a recent OAS or OBIEE is a matter of minutes with a silent install.

user8816499 · Answer

Ran into this as I needed an obiee env in a jiffy

Check if the files are corrupted by checking md5 sum

Get MD5 for each file.

https://serverfault.com/questions/57529/how-do-i-get-the-md5-of-a-file-on-windows

Realized md5 for file ending in .001 is the same as md5 for our file ending in .zip, confirming @Gianni Ceresa 's message above.

So the first file that is .zip has to be .001

From the above url,

I got docs : https://www.oracle.com/docs/tech/sampleappv506otn.zip

Has a quick deployment guide in that zip file, walking through that sep by step

Noticed 7za.exe might now be 7z based on my download and the exe is not in Path so I had to give it the full path to install

Result: the OVA is being created! I will update again once all is setup ion case I see any issues / diferences between doc and actual

mlov83 · Answer

Just for the record in case someone else runs into this issue. You can download a md5 checksum tool for windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11533 .  once downloaded read the readme file and run but basically the command is this.

fciv.exe SampleAppv607p-appliance.zip.001

it will print an md5 hash code right on the screen compare that to the downloaded md5 hash.