Upgrade Oracle 10g database 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.2

I have downloaded the trial version of 10g application server and 10g oracle database from Oracle site. But when I tried installed the 10g application server which needs to connect to the 10g database, I got the following error.
Database version should be 9.2.0.7 or higher in the oracle9i database release 2 series, 10.1.0.5 or higher in the oracle database 10g release 1 series, oracle database XE (10.2.0.1), 10.2.0.2 or higher in the oracle database 10g release 2 series.
How do I upgrade to 10.2.0.2 from 10.2.0.1?
Thanks.

Download patch set from metalink and extract patch into some directory.
Then from that directory run "Opatch install". ( You need to shutdown all database and other service while upgrading code tree)
Cheer,
Virag Sharma
http://virag.sharma.googlepages.com/
http://viragsharma.blogspot.com/

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