TIBCO Home and Default Installation Directory

The installer prompts you to specify the TIBCO home (TIBCO_HOME) where you want to install TIBCO BusinessEvents. Each TIBCO home is a separate environment. You can install the same software into different environments safely, for example, for test, QA, and staging purposes. You can install multiple TIBCO products into the same environment or into different ones. See Using Multiple TIBCO Homes.

A TIBCO home has a name and a directory on disk. The directory is the root directory for all TIBCO products you want to install into this TIBCO home.

Note: When installing multiple TIBCO products into a single TIBCO Home, ensure that all the products are compatible.

Microsoft Windows

The default installation location is the TIBCO_HOME where all TIBCO products are installed. Typically, TIBCO_HOME is c:\tibco.

The Start menu path to the executable files includes the environment as follows:

Start > TIBCO > TIBCO_HOME > TIBCO BusinessEvents 5.2

The name is also appended to the name of Windows services created by the installer.

UNIX

The default installation directory depends on who performs the installation:

For root users, the default installation directory is /opt/tibco.
For non-root users, the default installation directory is /<myhome>/tibco, where <myhome> is the home directory of the user.