Caché Installation Guide - InterSystems Documentation

Installing Caché on UNIX and Linux
4.3.1 Transfer Files from the Distribution Media
Caché for UNIX-based platforms is distributed either on DVD or acquired from InterSystems in a
compressed file with a tar.gz extension. There is also a single-user RPM (Red Hat Package Manager)
Linux kit available for download from the InterSystems Web site. The # represents the UNIX prompt
in the examples in this chapter.
Transfer the Caché installation files by choosing the one appropriate method from the following:
• Uncompress the downloaded file, or
• Mount the distribution DVD, or
• Download the RPM package file, cache-server-xxxx.x.x.xxx.x-x.platform.rpm, where xxxx.x.x.xxx.x-x
is the Caché build identifier and platform is the specific platform kit identifier. For example,
cache-server-2008.2.0.500.0-1.rh5.i386.rpm.
Important:
You must clear the GZIP environment variable before you install, especially on the
SUSE Linux 9 platform which sets this variable by default.
4.3.1.1 Uncompress the Downloaded File
Uncompress and untar the appropriate downloaded xxxx.x.x.xxx.x_platform.tar.gz file into a temporary
directory to avoid permissions issues. Where xxxx.x.x.xxx.x is the Caché build identifier and platform
is the identifier of the specific platform kit. For example:
# mkdir /tmp/cachekit
# chmod og+rx /tmp/cachekit
# gunzip -c /media/dvdrom/2008.2.0.500.0_hpit.tar.gz | ( cd
/tmp/cachekit ; tar xf - )
Important:
Do not install Caché from the /home directory, or any of its subdirectories.
4.3.1.2 Mount the Distribution DVD
For the DVD distribution, install directly from the DVD using the mount command. The device name
and options for a DVD mount command vary between systems. Typically, the mount command is:
# mount
Where specifies the name of the DVD device and specifies the pathname of
the directory to which the DVD is mounted.
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