Section - 3 : Installing the System

Follow these steps to install the Oracle Documaker on a computer running Linux (Intel-based). The following fonts are also included in the media pack you download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud, see Downloading the Software on page 9 for more information.

  • PCL and PostScript fonts
  • AFP fonts
  • Xerox fonts
Note:

Re-installation of the run time environment does not overwrite your INI files.

If you install the system into an existing directory, the current library setup (INI files) is retained. If you install the system into a new directory, you must set up all of your libraries—just as you would for a new installation.

Before you begin

Make sure you have full directory access permissions (read/write/execute) to the directory into which you will be installing Documaker Server.

Any Documaker processes that load the DB2 driver, such as shared objects, GenData, GenPrint, GenWIP, or GenArc, will issue an error similar to the following upon exiting.

--- GenData Completed ---

Illegal instruction(coredump)

This occurs because the DB2 client DSO’s registered exit function is invalid at the time of exit because the DSO was unloaded. This affects the return code from the Documaker process. If you have customizations that check the exit codes of these processes, those customizations will be affected, even though the Documaker processes were successful within their tasks.

Installation

Note: All paths and file names should be in lowercase.

Follow these steps to install the system:

  1. Log onto the UNIX system using the account you want to use for the installation. By default the installation process installs the system into a subdirectory in your home directory with a name based on the release number.

    For example, if you are installing the system using an account named fap that has a home directory of /home/fap. the installation installs the system in the /home/fap/rel125 directory. You can, however, override the default.

  2. Unzip the file you downloaded from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud website. Included in this file is a readme file and an installer. The name of AIX installer is as follows:

    setuprterp126p00b#####.aix

    Where 12.6 is the version number, 00 is the patch number, ##### is the build number and aix is the extension.

    This extension Indicates
    lnx Linux x86

  3. Run the installer using either a Korn or a Bash shell prompt.

    The initial installation screen describes the type of installation, displays the default directory the installation will use, and lets you override the installation location.

    Note: In case you encounter a message:
    "WARNING: Couldn't flush system prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: /etc/.java/.systemPrefs/com create failed.” while installing Documaker connector, JAPAC Fonts or the full set of fonts, you can continue without concern.