BusinessEvents Installation : Installer Overview

Installer Overview
Download TIBCO BusinessEvents from download.tibco.com. You will need your username and password. If you did not receive a username and password, contact TIBCO Technical Support. After you download the application, you can install it using the installer provided.
Typical or Custom Installation
You can choose to perform a typical install or custom install:
Has minimal prompts and installs standard components in default locations. You can change default locations if required.
Prompts you to choose the components of the product that you want to install and installs only those components.
TIBCO Environment and Default Installation Directory
The installer prompts you to specify or create an environment. An environment has a name, a description, and a directory on disk. Each TIBCO environment is isolated. 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.
The default installation location is $TIBCO_HOME where all TIBCO products are installed. Typically, $TIBCO_HOME is at c:\tibco.
The Start menu path to the executable files includes the environment as follows:
Start > TIBCO > environment > TIBCO BusinessEvents 4.0
The default installation directory depends on who performs the installation:
For non-root users, the default installation directory is /<myhome>/tibco, where <myhome> is the home directory of the user.
Disk Space Requirement in User's Home Directory
The user's home directory must have at least 500 KB of free disk space.