Installation Requirements

Before installing the product on your system, ensure that you can log in to the system with appropriate permissions, and that your system meets the hardware and software requirements need to install ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™.

If you plan to install in an existing installation environment, stop all running processes in TIBCO_HOME.

Installation Account

The privileges required to install the product differ for Windows and UNIX platforms. Ensure that you have the appropriate privileges to install on the target platform.

Microsoft Windows

You must have administrator privileges for the machine on which you want to install the software. If you do not have administrator privileges, the installer exits. If you want to install the product on a network drive, ensure that the account used for installation has permission to access the network drive.

Mac and UNIX

Any user, regular user (non-root) or super-user (root), can perform the installation. Use the same user account to install all TIBCO products.

On Unix systems, a graphic environment such as CDE or X Windows is required to run the installer in GUI mode.