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# HOW TO : Dowload content from Oracle Metalink (Support) using wget
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/how-to-dowload-content-from-oracle-metalink-support-using-wget/
- Published: 2011-02-10T13:57:11.000Z
- Updated: 2011-02-10T13:57:11.000Z
- Description: The usual process for a DBA to download files from Oracle Metalink (support) site is Login to Metalink from his/her workstation Download the file Upload the...
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The usual process for a DBA to download files from Oracle Metalink (support) site is

- Login to Metalink from his/her workstation
- Download the file
- Upload the file to the database server
- Use the file

Say your database is in a data center and your workstation doesn’t have high speed connectivity to the data center, you can use the following trick to download content to a l\[u\]inux server in the data center that has Internet connectivity (and hopefully it is not your database server 🙂 ).

- Log into Metalink from your workstation
- Grab the link to the file/content you want to download (for example, we recently tried to download clusterware for Oracle 11G, and the link was http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle11g/linux.x64\_11gR1\_clusterware.zip)
- Log into a server in your data center (it should have connectivity to the Internet and also to your database server)
- Download the file using wget

\[bash\]wget http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle11g/linux.x64\_11gR2\_clusterware.zip –user ORACLE\_ID –password ORACLE\_ID\_PASSWORD\[/bash\]

> Replace the link with the link to your content and use your Oracle ID and password.

- The file downloaded will have a strange name since wget appends the sessionID to the end of the file. In the example I used above, the name of the file was “**linux.x64\_11gR2\_clusterware.zip\\?e\\=1297470492\\&h\\=a66b265cc967a68c611052cb8e54356f**“
- Rename the file and strip off the unnecessary data in the name using mv