Installation guide

Configuring and running the silent installer

EAServer

• libjinstaller.so.

•The JRE_1_4 subdirectory and its contents. Sybase recommends that

you use this JRE to run the install. Other JRE versions may not work

as well.

• If you have the Developer or Workgroup Edition, copy

SYBASE_EAS.lic from the root directory of the EAServer CD to the

root directory of your install image.

• If your silent installation process is going to upgrade an earlier

EAServer installation, copy the following files and directories,

preserving the relative path structure:

• SupportGeneric/Upgrade directory and contents

• SupportLinux/Upgrade directory and contents

3 Create configuration and run files as described in “Configuration and run

files” on page 23. Copy any required additional files from the EAServer

CD to your install image, as described in that section.

4 To support the silent uninstallation process, create the files described in

“Silent uninstaller files” on page 32.

Preserving the vpd.properties file You may make a few errors when

creating and testing your silent installation. Cleanup of failed installations

requires that you delete the InstallShield vpd.properties file. This file may be

required by the installers for other applications. Before testing your

installation, back up the following file and restore it before installing or

upgrading other software: ~/vpd.properties.

❖ Testing and running the silent installer

1 Before running a silent installation, make sure you:

a Have enough space in your temporary and product directories. See

“System requirements” on page 2. If necessary, you can edit the shell

script that runs the install and change the temporary directory location

specified for the

-Dtemp.dir command line option.

b If your home directory contains an InstallShield vpd.properties file,

make a backup copy. If you run the installer using a different user ID,

check for this file in the home directory of that user ID and back it up

if it exists.