About This Guide

This book, the BEA TUXEDO System 6.4 Installation Guide explains how to install the BEA TUXEDO System software and online documentation. BEA TUXEDO is a platform for distributed online transaction processing applications.

Intended Audience

Readers of this guide are assumed to be system administrators or application developers with a knowledge of the UNIX operating system and the workstation platforms on which the BEA TUXEDO System runs.

Organization of the Guide

This guide has three chapters and an appendix:

• Chapter 1 Pre-Installation Issues
  Covers what you need to do in advance of the actual installation.

• Chapter 2 Installing the BEA TUXEDO System
  Tells how to load the BEA TUXEDO packages into your machine, what the directory structure looks like after the installation is finished, and how to verify that the installation completed successfully.

• Chapter 3 Post-Installation Issues
  Describes additional steps for configuring the BEA TUXEDO software and online documentation.

• Appendix A Data Sheets
  Provides platform-specific information for the platforms supported.