Problem:

• Product Name: Borland Enterprise Server, VisiBroker Edition
• Product Version: 5.0 and later
• Product Component: Installer
• Platform/OS Version: All

Installation fails indicating that some component, e.g. the VM, could not be extracted. Similar message to the following:

Preparing to install... 
WARNING: /tmp does not have enough disk space! Attempting to use for install base and tmp dir. 
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive... The included VM could not be extracted.
Please try to download the installer again and make sure that you download using "binary" mode. 
Please do not attempt to install this currently downloaded copy.

Resolution:

The amount of temporary installation space required by the InstallAnywhere installer can be greater that 400MB in some versions. In the event that there is not enough space available in the default system temp directory, the installer will then try to use the users home directory, if there is still no space then the installation will fail.

The solution is to set the IATEMPDIR environment variable before running the installer. This variable should point to a location with large enough space for the installer to extract temporary files into.

For example, on the UNIX bash shell:

$ export IATEMPDIR =/var/tmpspace

On the Windows:

e:\\> set IATEMPDIR=e:\\largedrive