HP WDB 5.5 Release Notes

Introduction

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

Chapter 1

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

This section contains installation information for HP WDB.

The HP WDB debugger consists of the following swinstall products:

If you install WDB GUI on a system where HP WDB has not yet been installed, HP WDB will be installed automatically.

Compatibility

HP WDB is not supported on releases of the HP-UX operating system prior to 11i. See the HP WDB web page,

http://www.hp.com/go/wdb, for a version of HP WDB compatible with Itanium-based systems.

Supported Configurations

The following configurations are supported by HP WDB:

• Installing and running locally on an HP-UX 11i version1, HP-UX 11i version 2 or HP-UX 11i version 3 system

• Installing and running locally on an HP-UX 11i version 1, HP-UX 11i version 2 system or HP-UX 11i version 3 with the

display redirected to a remote HP-UX 11.x node

Filesets

HP WDB is the product name for the HP WDB debugger. The HP WDB product contains the following components:

• WDB: Runtime contains one fileset

• WDB-DOC: Documentation contains one fileset

• WDB-MAN: Manuals contains one fileset

NOTE On HP-UX 11.0 and later, DEBUG-PRG is a co-requisite fileset for HP WDB and is automatically selected

during installation.

The WDB GUI product contains the following sub-products:

• WDB-GUI-RUN: Runtime contains one fileset

• WDB-GUI-HELP: Help contains one fileset

• WDB-GUI-MAN: Manuals contain one fileset

HP WDB GUI requires the WDB product. If WDB is not already installed, it will be automatically selected during installation.

Table 1-1

Product Name Description

HP WDB HP WDB Debugger

HP WDB-GUI Optional graphical user interface component for the WDB Debugger