Oracle setup.exe space sensitivity when specifying jre absolute path

Question

I am currently setting up Oracle Enterprise edition for my computer. That means I use the Oracle Universal Installer to launch the program. When I launch the setup.exe file from my computer and give the specified arguments:

setup.exe -jreLoc "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7"

I get the following error:

C:\Program\bin\javaw.exe was not found.

However if I copy the jre7 directory over to the C:\ directory so the path is now C:\jre7 then it works. I tried with quotes and it thinks its part of the path file. Single quotes fail as well.

My questions is for the Oracle setup.exe launcher how do you specify a space in the path of the jreLoc since quotes seem to fail?

Answer 1

Changing "Program Files" to "progra~1" worked as suggested in the comments above.

Answer 2

Also the directory path containing the installation software should not contain spaces either. So, for instance move the directory winx64_12c_client to c:\

Answer 3

Consider having the oracle setup files which you are trying to install in a path, where its folders' and subfolders' names DO NOT have spaces..

This worked for me..

Answer 4

I used JDK path instead of JRE path and it worked for me, e.g.

setup.exe -jreLoc C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk7