Start the Installer on a Mac OS X, UNIX, or Linux System
1. Log on to the machine as the installation user you created earlier.
2. Open your installation email from Software AG.
a. Follow the instructions to download the bin file for the Software AG Installer from the Software Download Center on Empower.
Note:
If you want to transfer the bin file to another machine using FTP, use the binary file transfer mode\type. If you use another mode\type, the bin file might become corrupted.
b. Copy the product license files attached to the email to the machine on which you are going to install.
3. Shut down all non-Software AG applications that are running on the machine on which you are going to install. If these applications are not shut down, product files might become corrupted.
4. If you are going to install new products into an existing Software AG installation directory (that contains products from the same release):
Shut down running products in that directory so the installer can update key files that are locked by the operating system. For instructions, see the product documentation.
Check whether a file named afterInstallAsRootLog.txt exists in the
Software AG installation directory. If it does, execute the
Software AG_directory /bin/beforeInstallAsRoot script.
5. Run the command below. The bin file is a self-extracting archive that extracts its content into the machine's temporary directory.
sh SoftwareAGInstalleryyyymmdd-operating_system.bin
Important:
Software AG Installer can be forced in console mode when the -console parameter is specified in the command line.
You might receive Java messages when you start the installer. For example, you might receive warning messages about system preferences, or about unlocking connections. You can ignore these messages.
If your temporary directory contains thousands of files, the startup process might take one minute or longer. The installer will display Initializing system resources during this time. If you want to speed up this process, delete the files in your temporary folder.
To change the temporary directory for Software AG Installer and the bin file extract location, set the following environment variable before running the bin file:
TMPDIR=<temporary-directory>
export TMPDIR
To reuse the extracted content of the bin file, specify the following before running the bin file:
SAGINSTALLERDIR=/path/to/installer
export SAGINSTALLERDIR
To specify custom Java options, set the following environment variable before running the bin file:
SAG_JAVA_OPTIONS=<custom-options>
export SAG_JAVA_OPTIONS
As you move through the installer wizard, the installer stores some of the files it requires in the default temporary directory. If you cancel the installer and later restart it on the same machine, the installer will use the stored files rather than downloading them from the installer server again, to improve performance.
After installation concludes successfully, the installer will delete the bin file content and the stored files in the default temporary directory.
6. The user file-creation mode mask (umask) can affect the file permissions for newly created files and directories. Make sure the umask you are using for installation will not prevent users from accessing and executing these files.