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Chapter 2 Installing TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks BPEL Extension : Installation Registry

Installation Registry
The installer maintains an installation registry. The registry location depends on the platform. This section explains where the registry files are located. The files have vpd as a prefix, which stands for Vital Product Database.
Microsoft Windows Platforms
TIBCO products maintain the installation registry in the %SystemRoot% directory. The following files represent the installation registry:
 
%SystemRoot%\vpd.properties
%SystemRoot%\vpd.properties.tibco.systemName
Installer Disk Space Requirements in Temporary Area
The entire package is extracted into a temporary folder, typically SystemDrive:\Temp or SystemDrive:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Local Settings\Temp.
The installer requires 40MB of free space in the temp directory.
UNIX Platforms
The installation registry is maintained in the following files in the user's home directory:
 
User_Home_Directory/vpd.properties
User_Home_Directory/vpd.properties.tibco.systemName
If installation is performed by super-user (root), the installation registry is maintained as follows:
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:
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 have at least have 500 KB of free disk space.
Installation History
The installer and uninstaller creates a file called TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml in the same location where the installation registry is created. Each time an installation and uninstallation is performed, entries are appended to the file.
On Windows: %SystemRoot%\TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml
On UNIX: Users_Home_Directory/TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml
The file TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml therefore contains the record of all installation and uninstallation activities of all products, features and components.
Do not edit, modify, rename, move, or remove the TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml file.

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