Unless you are using opatch to look at the oraInventory, you will not be able to get information on patches applied without using the Oracle installer, like the one-off pacthes, etc. Amir -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Sharples Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:07 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to determine what patches are needed to be installed and what patches are already installed then you cant get patches, so why bother looking? oraInventory will have that kinda info On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:51:19 -0600, Nguyen, David M <david.m.nguyen@xxxxxx> wrote: > I am running oracle8i on red hat 8. How do I find out what patches need to be applied and what patches are already installed. I don't have access to oracle meta link. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l