Installation guide

5-12 BEA Products Installation Guide
UNIX For installers with filenames ending in
.bin:
1. Go to the directory that contains the installation file.
2. Launch the upgrade installation by entering the following
command:
chmod a+x filename.bin
./filename.bin -mode=silent
-silent_xml=/path_to_silent.xml
Here <filename.bin> is the name of the upgrade
installation program you downloaded from the BEA
Customer Support Web site, and
path_to_silent.xml is
the full pathname of the silent.xml template file.
Note: You can also include the
-log=full_path_to_log_file option in the
command line to create a verbose installation log. For
example:
platformXXX_upgrade_solaris.bin
-mode=silent
-silent_xml=/home/silent.xml
-log=/home/logs/platform_install.log
.
In this filename, XXX represents the version
number of the software you are installing. For
more information on creating a log file, see
Generating a Verbose Installation Log
The installation program begins to install the upgrade.
For installers with filenames ending in
.jar:
1. Include the bin directory of the appropriate Java 2 SDK at
the beginning of the PATH variable definition on the
target system. For example:
PATH=JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
Here JAVA_HOME is the full path of the Java 2 SDK directory.
2. Go to the directory in which you downloaded the
installation file and invoke the installation procedure by
entering the following command:
To start the upgrade installer on this
platform . . .
Perform the following steps...