Preparing for Installation

Before you start with installation, make sure your system meets all prerequisites, decide on the installation environment name and folder, and download and extract the installation package.

Caution: If you have an existing 64-bit version of the product, do not install a 32-bit version on top of it.

TIBCO_HOME is the top-level installation directory for TIBCO_HOME products. TIBCO_HOME is referred to as the installation environment. Installation environments isolate product installations; a product installed into an installation environment does not access components in other environments.

An installation environment consists of a name and a folder.

The name identifies the environment, is appended to the name of the Windows services created by the installer, and is a component of the path to the product in the Windows Start > All Programs menu.
The folder contains the installed software. When you install you can choose a new installation environment or an existing installation environment.

If a previous installation of a TIBCO product did not use the TIBCO Universal Installer, then the TIBCO Universal Installer does not detect the folder those older products use as an installation environment folder. To use the existing location as the installation folder, create a new installation environment and choose the folder where the other products exist. See the Release Notes for restrictions on the installation environment.

Note: Before applying the service pack, ensure that there is sufficient room in the TIBCO_HOME directory to hold a backup of the files to be updated. This is approximately half the size of the service pack ZIP file.

Procedure

Make sure your environment meets all requirements and perform the pre-installation tasks. See Installation Requirements and Pre-installation Tasks.
Note: If you do not have Internet access, be sure to download the required software assemblies. See Downloading Software Assemblies if No Internet Access is Available.
Decide on the installation environment (TIBCO_HOME) you want to use. The installer will prompt you for a name and a folder.

Set up your environment for the installation you are planning.

Choice	Action
If you plan on installing in an existing installation environment.	Stop all processes that are using Java from `TIBCO_HOME`.
If you plan on installing on a machine on which runtime objects (Administrator server, TIBCO Host instances, and nodes) are running.	Stop all the processes corresponding to the objects.
If you plan on installing the SOA Development profile or a custom profile containing TIBCO Business Studio.	Create a new installation environment.

Extract the service pack to a temporary directory different from where the product installer archive was extracted.
Perform the installation based on the mode you selected.