Unable to uninstall Oracle 10g products

I am on Solaris 10.5 SPARC 64 and just installed Oracle 10g successfully, but can deinstall.
I am trying to uninstall oracle products I just installed. But each time I run the Oracle Universal Installer to perform deinstall, I see "There are no installed products" on the welcome screen.
Any idea?
Here is what I am doing:
Start Oracle Universal Installer as follows:
$ $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller
In the Welcome window, click Deinstall Products

damorgan wrote:
Most of us, perhaps almost all of us, deinstall Oracle products from real operating systems (Solaris, Linux, etc.) by going to the directory where it was installed and typing:
rm -rf *There aren't any DLLs or registries or other such nonsense.
But do not issue the above command unless you understand what it is and what it does. I can not be held legally liable for anyone's misuse of the commands.So what tihe use of the Oracle Documentation? Anyway thank you! Deleted!
Edited by: Albert Zaza on Dec 10, 2010 1:44 PM

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