Installing client products

You can install client products as an interactive installation or an unattended installation. You can customize the installation process with the installation command.

You have the following installation method options, depending on your operating system:

• UNIX, Linux: interactive console (default), interactive GUI, silent, scripted
• Windows: interactive GUI, silent

Although the most common way to run the installation program on Windows or Mac OS X operating systems is by double-clicking an executable, you can run the installation command from the command line on all operating systems. When you run the installation command from the command line, you can include options to customize the installation process in the following ways:

• Specify the mode for the installation program: console, GUI, or silent, depending on the operating system.
• Create a response file for use in an unattended installation.
• Specify the directory for installation log files.
• Specify the level and directory for debugging information.
• Specify silent installation options.