Upgrading 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 ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.3.0 to ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 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 ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.3.0 release and are upgrading to ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 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 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.