Running an interactive installation

You can install client products by running an interactive installation program. You can choose which products to install.

Before you begin

Before you start the installation program, perform the following steps:

Prepare your system for installation.
Log in as the appropriate user to be the owner of the client products.

About this task

You can include options to the installation command if you run the command from the command line. For example, on UNIX and Linux, you can include the -i gui option to run the installation program in GUI mode instead of the default console mode.

Procedure

To install client products:

Start the installation application from the media directory.
- UNIX, Linux:
  1. If necessary, extract the product files. For example, run the tar command:
```
tar xvf filename
```
    The filename is the name of the product tar file.
  2. Run the following command to install Client SDK: ./installclientsdk.
- Windows:
  1. If the entire media is still in .zip archive format, extract the media.
  2. Exit all other applications.
  3. Double-click the installclientsdk.exe file to install Client SDK.
Follow the instructions in the installation application. Choose a custom installation to exclude products, or a typical installation to install all components.
Complete the installation and exit the installation application.

Results

Log files are created during the installation process. You can use the log files to troubleshoot installation errors.

You can now configure the client environment and connect to the database server.

What to do next

Windows: If you are upgrading to new release, restart your computer after the installation completes if both of the following conditions are true:

The new installation location is different from the previous installation location
You plan to use a distributed transaction application that uses the COM+ technology