Installing HCL® Quality Server in the silent mode on Linux
You can find information about installing HCL® Quality Server in the silent mode on Linux by using the stand-alone installer.
Before you begin
- Read and ascertained that your computer meets the requirements specified in System Requirements and Prerequisites for using the stand-alone installer for using the stand-alone installer.
- Read and completed any tasks indicated in Installation considerations for HCL Quality Server.
- Migrated data in the HCL® Quality Server workspace, if you want to reuse the same workspace. See Migrating data in the HCL Quality Server workspace on Linux.
- Uninstalled any previous version of this product. See Uninstalling the product software on Linux.
- Downloaded the product software package that is dependent on the stand-alone installer for the supported operating system on your computer from the HCL FlexNet Operations (FNO) portal.
- Deleted the properties file that was generated from a previous installation.
- Generated a properties file with details of installation of the product software that you want to install in the silent mode. See Generating the properties file on Linux.
Procedure
- Open a terminal and log in as a root user.
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Enter the following command in the terminal
after you replace the variables with values on your
computer:
cd <Path_extracted_product>
Where <Path_extracted_product> is the path to the folder where you extracted the downloaded package.
For example, the path to the folder where you extracted the HCL® Quality Server software package in the command can be as follows:
cd ./root/Downloads/HCL_OT_QS_1054_Install_IA_LNX
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Extract the downloaded file by entering the following command:
unzip <product_software_package.zip>
For example, the command to extract the HCL® Quality Server software package can be as follows:
unzip HCL_OT_QS_1054_Install_IA_LNX.zip
Optionally, you can select the language in which you want to install the product. You must provide the <language_code> for the language that is listed in the following table:Language Language code Czech cz English en French fr German de Hungarian hu Italian it Japanese ja Korean ko Polish pl Portuguese (Brazil) pt_BR Russian ru Spanish es Simplified Chinese zh_CN Traditional Chinese zh_TW Turkish tr -
Enter the following command to start the installation in the silent mode:
./"<Extracted_Product_name.bin>" -i silent -l <language_code> -f <path>/<File_name_installer.properties>
Where:- <Extracted_Product_name.exe> is the name of the product in the folder.
- <language_code> is the language code of the language that you want to use.
- <path> is the path to the folder that contains the generated properties file.
- <File_name_installer.properties> is the name of the installer.properties file.
For example, if you have the following conditions:- Find the name of the extracted product file is HCL-Quality-Server-Linux-x64-v10.5.0.bin in the folder where you extracted the downloaded product software package.
- Saved the generated properties file in the folder /opt/MyDocuments
- Saved the generated properties file with the name as hqs_installer.properties
- Want to use French as your preferred language for the installed product.
./"HCL-Quality-Server-Linux-x64-v10.5.0.bin" -i silent -l fr -f /opt/MyDocuments/hqs_installer.properties
Results
You have installed HCL® Quality Server in your preferred language in the silent mode on your computer.
What to do next
You can check the installation log to verify the installation. You can find the logs in the <Installation_folder>/logs folder.