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Installer Overview

The installer enables you to run in three modes. Each mode is supported on all platforms.

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GUI mode

•	Console mode

•	Silent mode

GUI Mode

In GUI mode, the installer presents panels that enable you to make choices about product selection, product location, and so on. When you invoke the installer by double-clicking the icon, GUI mode is used.

Console Mode

Console mode enables you to run the installer from the command prompt or terminal window. This is useful if your machine does not have a Windows environment.

Silent Mode

Silent mode either installs using the default settings or uses a response file that was saved during an earlier installation. Silent mode installs without prompting you for information.

Installation continues in one of the following ways:

•	If no response file has been recorded earlier and you invoke the installer with the -silent argument, the default installation parameters are used.

•	If a response file exists, and the installer is started with -options <responseFileName> as an argument, the installer uses the values specified by the user when the response file was generated.

TIBCO Universal Installer

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is installed with TIBCO Universal Installer.

When installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, you should always use the same TIBCO_HOME directory where TIBCO Runtime Agent is installed. This is because for backward compatibility the old installation registry (vpd.properties) is still utilized and is shared by all TIBCO_HOMEs created by the universal installer.

Upgrading TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks

TIBCO Software uses three numbers to indicate whether the release is major, minor or a patch. For example, 5.0.0 indicates a major release, 5.3.0 indicates a minor release and 5.3.3 indicates a patch release. The installer for a patch release performs an automatic upgrade. For example, the installer automatically upgrades TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.3.0 to 5.3.1 by overwriting the contents of the 5.3 directory.

For a major and minor release, the installer prompts whether you wish to upgrade, and informs you if incompatible products are on your system. If you proceed, major or minor releases are installed under a new directory that is named using the major or minor release numbers.

For example, if you have installed the 5.3.0 release and are upgrading to a 5.4.0 minor release, it is installed under the 5.4 directory. This allows both the 5.3 and 5.4 releases to coexist on the same machine.

If you are upgrading TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, or reinstalling a clean version of the software, you may uninstall the product first or allow the installer to perform the upgrade or reinstall.

Note that if you are reinstalling over the same version:

•	You are not prompted to supply the installation location. The software is automatically reinstalled where the previous version was installed.

•	If any files are currently locked (that is, in use), the installer marks the file for deletion in the install location. After installation, the installer prompts you to reboot your system. You must reboot before using the software.

Installer Disk Space Requirements in Temporary Area

The installer launcher first extracts a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a temporary directory and uses this JVM to launch itself. The size of the extracted JVM differs from platform to platform.

On UNIX platforms the following disk space is required in the temporary area:

•	On Solaris, 75 MB of free disk space in /var/tmp

•	On HP-UX, 85 MB of free disk space in /var/tmp

•	On AIX, 75 MB of free disk space in /tmp

•	On Linux, 75 MB of free disk space in /tmp

If your system does not have sufficient free disk space in the above temporary area, you can still run the installer with a different temporary area by using the following option when starting the installer:

 

<install_package_name>.bin -is:tempdir /new_tmp

where /new_tmp has sufficient free disk space.

Disk Space Requirement in User's Home Directory

On UNIX platforms when a regular (non-root) user installs a TIBCO product, the installation registry (two vpd files) is maintained in the user's home directory. As more products are installed, entries are added into these vpd files.

The user's home directory must at least have 500 KB of free disk space.

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