Before starting the installation procedure, review the topics in this section to determine that your system meets the basic requirements and that you have the prerequisite software installed.
The installer places all libraries and other products required by TIBCO BusinessEvents into the
TIBCO_HOME directory. During installation, the installer checks for the availability of all dependent products in the target system. If any of the dependencies are not available, the installer lists them and gives you the option to cancel or go back (GUI and console modes) or immediately exits (silent mode). Otherwise installation proceeds.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks is required for design-time work, but is not required for BusinessEvents to function at runtime (unless the design of your projects requires it). However, the installer requires ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks to be installed before BusinessEvents. Runtime use of ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks requires a licensed version of the software.
A windowing environment such as CDE (that is, X11 Windows) is required to run the installer in GUI mode. It is not required for a console installation or silent installation.
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.
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:
where /new_tmp has sufficient free disk space.
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 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.
The file TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml therefore contains the record of all installation and uninstallation activities of all products, features and components.
The installer maintains an installation registry. The registry location depends on platform. This section explains where the registry files are located on UNIX platforms. The files have vpd as a prefix, which stands for Vital Product Database.