This article provides instructions on how to extract the installation media from the downloaded UNIX gunzip tar archive.
Problem:
After downloading a UNIX gunzip tar deliverable, follow the steps below to decompress the deliverable and create the installation components. These instructions assume that gunzip has already been installed. The gunzip tool is available at www.gzip.org, both in source form and as executable files. This tool runs on a number of platforms, including Windows. Note that other Windows ZIP tools can also decompress a gunzip tar file; however, you should be careful when extracting files from the resulting tar file. Make sure that any tar file CR/LF conversion option is turned off.
Resolution:
- Save the License Certificate attached to the electronic delivery email.
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Following the download, change the working directory to the directory that contains the deliverable.
The deliverable will have a name in the form deliverable.tar.gz, where deliverable will be dependent on the downloaded file.
- If necessary, move this file to a machine with gunzip installed on it.
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Execute the following command:
gunzip deliverable.tar.gz.
- If necessary, move the resulting file, deliverable.tar, to an empty directory on the machine where the product is to be installed.
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Execute the following command:
tar xvf deliverable.tar.There may be a README.TXT file in this directory that will give further instructions on how to begin the installation; however, complete documentation is available online in a PDF-based format at supportline.microfocus.com/productdoc.asp.
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If you are installing a Windows product, execute LiantInstall. If you have an UNIX product, typically, there will be an INSTALL or install.sh file. After logging in as root, the installation script can be run by typing sh ./INSTALL or sh ./install.sh from the command line.
Please refer to the product documentation for detailed instructions.
- Install the product using the appropriate installation procedure.
- If desired, make a backup of the deliverable or the installation components at this time.
- Delete the deliverable and installation components.
