OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Chapter 7. Installing DCE

This section is an overview of how to use the DCE installation and conﬁguration script,

dce_conﬁg, to install the DCE binaries built for your platform. Once the binaries are

installed, you can conﬁgure the system as described in Chapter 8.

The dce_conﬁg script is supplied by OSF as part of the the DCE offering. Your system

vendor may provide an alternative method of installing the DCE binaries. If so, refer to

the vendor’s documentation for instructions.

7.1 Prerequisites

Before you can install DCE on the local machine, you must be able to access the install

tree containing the DCE binaries. Building the binaries is described in the OSF DCE

Release Notes.

Additionally, you should read and understand the overview of DCE presented in

Chapters 1 through 5 of this guide. Pay particular attention to Chapters 2 and 3,

which can be used as a guide to planning cell conﬁgurations. These chapters

describe the space requirements for machines running DCE, the servers and client

daemons required to be installed for each DCE component, the optional servers,

tools, and utilities that make up each component, and other cell planning

considerations. Note that because this chapter assumes you have read and

understood these chapters, it makes no attempt to describe the function or use of

DCE component software.

7.1.1 The Install Tree Location

You can install the DCE binaries from an install tree stored on your ﬁle system or from

an install tree stored on a media device. If you install from a media device, dce_conﬁg

must copy each ﬁle it needs from the device as it needs it. Because it is faster to install

from the ﬁle system, we recommend that you use the tar command to copy the install

tree to a directory named /opt/dce in your ﬁle system.

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