Installation Prerequisites


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.

System Requirements

The following system requirements are recommended for production systems. The actual requirements depend on your application environment.

Required Software
Additional Software

TIBCO Rendezvous 6.6 or higher is required if the Rendezvous routing feature of the server is used. If Rendezvous is already installed on your network, additional licenses are required only if you are adding additional hosts (client, server, development subnets, and so on) to your network.

Supported Platforms and Installation Packages

Table 1 UNIX Installation Packages (Sheet 1 of 2)
Installer Suffix
Platform
Notes
sol7_sparc
Sun Solaris 7 and later on SPARC
 
sol10_x86 
Sun Solaris 10 on x86
 
hpux110_hppa
HP-UX 11.0, 11i
 
hpux112_ia64
HP-UX Itanium 11.22 (or later)
 
aix51_power
IBM AIX 5.1
 
linux24gl22_x86
Linux (kernel 2.4)
Requires kernel 2.4.20 or later.
Requires glibc 2.2.4.
linux24gl23_x86
Linux (kernel 2.4)
Requires kernel 2.4.20 or later.
Requires glibc 2.3 or later.
linux24gl22_ia64
Linux Itanium (kernel 2.4)
Requires kernel 2.4.18 or later.
Requires glibc 2.2.4 or later.
See instructions for Special Case Installations.
linux24gl23_ia64
Linux Itanium (kernel 2.4)
Requires kernel 2.4.18 or later.
Requires glibc 2.3 or later.
tru6451_alpha
HP Tru 64 UNIX 5.1B
See instructions for Special Case Installations.
macosx_power
Mac OS X 10.3 and later
Install from a binary executable (.bin file), rather than an installation package.
See instructions below, at Mac OS X Install.

Installer Account

TIBCO products can be installed by a regular (non-root) user and super-user (root). Different users can install the same product at different locations.

Display Environment

A GUI environment is required to run the installer in GUI mode. It is not required for a console or silent installation.

For information about installing on UNIX systems, see DISPLAY Variable FAQ.

Mac OS X Install

The EMS installer for Mac OS X is parallel to the installer for other UNIX platforms (it does not use Apple’s installer GUI). Opening the MacEMS package icon does not install the product. Instead, install using a terminal window:

Opening a Terminal Window

  1. Open a Finder window.
  2. In the Finder window, open the Applications folder.
  3. In the Applications folder, open the Utilities folder.
  4. In the Utilities folder, start the Terminal program (by double-clicking its icon).

Starting the
EMS Installer

  1. Change directory to the EMS installation directory:
  2.  
         cd install_directory 
     

    The default installation directory is $USER_HOME/tibco.

  3. Run the installer binary executable:
  4.  
        ./TIB_ems-simple_4_3_0_macosx_power.bin 
     

    This command opens the Java InstallShield wizard.

The .bin file is not a MacBinary encoded file, rather a UNIX binary executable file.

Special Case Installations

On some platforms technical issues require a different installation procedure. If the installation package for your platform is a .tar.gz file, follow these steps:

Install

  1. Unzip the product package. For example:
  2.    # gunzip package_file 
    
  3. Unpack the resulting tar file. For example:
  4.    # tar xvf tar_file 
    
  5. Execute the tibinstall script and follow the instructions.
  6.    # ./tibinstall 
    
  7. Change the ownership and group of the EMS top directory to the user who will execute the software:
  8. prompt> cd installation_path/tibco/ 
    prompt> chown -R username 
    prompt> chgrp -R groupname 
    

Uninstall

To uninstall, use this shell command:

prompt> rm -fr installation_path/tibco/ems/ 

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