Error "Following patches have conflicts" when installing the Oracle Oct 2020 CPU

Products

• Data Loss Prevention Oracle Standard Edition 2
• Data Loss Prevention

Issue/Introduction

Not able to install the Oracle Oct 2020 CPU on Oracle 12c R2. 
The issue will be the same on Oracle 12c R1

 

The error details are as follows:

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[Jan 6, 2021 10:03:31 AM] [INFO]    The following warnings have occurred during OPatch execution:
[Jan 6, 2021 10:03:31 AM] [INFO]    1) OUI-67301:
                                    Following patches have conflicts: [   31465105   31654782 ]
                                    Use the MOS Patch Conflict Checker "https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/PatchConflictCheck" to resolve.
                                    See MOS documents 1941934.1 and 1299688.1 for additional information and resolution methods.
[Jan 6, 2021 10:03:31 AM] [INFO]    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[Jan 6, 2021 10:03:31 AM] [INFO]    Finishing UtilSession at Wed Jan 06 10:03:31 PST 2021
[Jan 6, 2021 10:03:31 AM] [INFO]    Log file location: D:\oracle\product\12.2.0.1\db_2\cfgtoollogs\opatch\opatch2021-01-06_10-03-24AM_1.log
[Jan 6, 2021 10:03:31 AM] [INFO]    Stack Description: java.lang.RuntimeException: Please rebuild the superset patch [31654782] to make sure it supersedes all the relevant patch(es) [31210848,31465105].
                

Environment

Release : DLP 15.x with Oracle 12c R2

Component :

Resolution

1. Uninstall patch 31465105.
2. Install the Oct 2020 CPU.
3. Reinstall patch 34165105 or the latest OVM patch.

 

Note that the DLP Oracle database template does not require the OVM patch as we do not use that function.