OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Installing DCE
especially useful if you have set the environment variables described in
Chapter 10.
The remainder of this subsection first describes the prompts that you may receive during
the installation of all DCE components and how to answer those prompts. After these
descriptions, the steps to perform each type of installation available from the DCE
Installation Menu are described.
7.2.2 Installation Prompts
The dce_config script prompts for information common to all component installations.
If you are installing DCE for the first time, you will receive all these prompts. If you
have completely removed a previous installation or if you have continued an installation
in a new dce_config session, you will receive only some of the prompts.
The common prompts you can receive are:
• A prompt to remove all previous DCE installations
• A prompt for message catalog locations
• If your machine has an existing zoneinfo directory, a prompt to remind you create a
link to the new zoneinfo directory
• A prompt for the machine’s ETHERNET address
• A prompt for whether or not to execute the OSF/1 lib_admin tool
Each prompt is described in the following subsections.
7.2.2.1 Removing All Previous Installations
During installation you will receive the following prompt:
Do you wish to first remove all remnants of
previous DCE installations for all components?
You should do so if you plan on re-installing
all existing DCE components now (n):
You will receive this prompt only once per dce_config session. This means that if you
exit dce_config and then start it again, you will again receive this prompt.
To answer the prompt, you have two choices:
1. Type n and press <RETURN> if any of the following are true:
• This is the first time you have installed DCE on the machine or you have
removed the previous binaries with the REMOVE option
• You are reinstalling only some of the components
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