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.
When a TIBCO Enterprise Message Service package is unpacked, it is extracted into a temporary folder. The installer requires at least 250 MB of free space in the temporary directory. On Microsoft Windows, the temporary directory location is
%SystemDrive%:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Temp.
If your system does not have sufficient free disk space in the default temporary directory, you can run the installer with a different temporary directory by using the following option when starting the installer. For example:
where \new_tmp has sufficient free disk space.
The installer calculates the disk space required in product home location for the selected components. The calculation is done before the actual installation (copying of files to system) begins. The installer will proceed only if sufficient free disk space is available in product home location.
However, if disk space is consumed by another process while the installer is copying the files, and if the required disk space is thereby reduced, the installer may fail and will then give a failure message.
TIBCO EMS can consume 600MB of free space under TIBCO_HOME on UNIX platforms, and 512MB on Windows platforms.
On UNIX platforms, when a regular (non-root) user installs a TIBCO product, the installation registry (
vpd files) is maintained in the user's home directory. As more products are installed, entries are added into these
vpd files.