Installation Registry and History


The installer maintains an installation registry. The registry location depends on the platform. This section explains where the registry files are located. The file names include the prefix vpd, which stands for Vital Product Database.

Do not edit, modify, rename, move, or remove any of the registry vpd files.

Microsoft Windows Platforms

An installation registry is maintained in the %windir% folder. The following files represent the installation registry:

 
%windir%\vpd.properties 
%windir%\vpd.properties.tibco.systemName 
Installer Disk Space Requirements in Temporary Area

The entire package is extracted into a temp folder, typically SystemDrive:\Temp or SystemDrive:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local Settings\Temp.

The installer requires 32MB of free space in the temp directory.

UNIX Platforms

If installation is performed by a regular user (non-root), the installation registry is maintained in the following files in the user's home directory:

 
$HOME/vpd.properties 
$HOME/vpd.properties.tibco.systemName 

If installation is performed by super-user (root), the installation registry is maintained as follows:

Installer Disk Space Requirements in Temporary Area

The installer launcher first extracts the JVM in a temporary directory and uses this JVM to launch itself. The size of the extracted JVM differs from platform to platform.

The installer can also use a JVM if the version it requires is available on your system. In that case, the bundled JVM is not extracted and significantly less disk space is required.

On UNIX platforms the following disk space is required in the temporary area:

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:

 
-is:tempdir /new_tmp 

where /new_tmp has sufficient free disk space.

For example, on Solaris:

TIB_ems-simple_4.3.0_sol7_sparc.bin -is:tempdir /new_tmp 
Disk Space Requirement in User's Home Directory

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.

The user's home directory must at least have 500 KB of free disk space.

Installation History

The installer creates a file called TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml in the location where the installation registry is created. Each time an installation or uninstallation is performed, entries are appended to the file.

On Windows: %windir%\TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml

On UNIX: $HOME/TIBCOInstallationHistory.xml

The file will be used by the installer in future releases.


TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ Installation
Software Release 4.3, February 2006
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