Linux/UNIX/macOS X Instructions

EPM Automate requires access to a deployment of a supported JRE (version 8 through 14 that supports TLS 1.3). The environment variable JAVA_HOME must be set to point to your JRE installation.

To install EPM Automate:

1. Access an environment.
2. On the Home page, access Setting and Actions by clicking your user name.
3. Click Downloads.
4. In the Downloads page, click Download for Linux/macOS X in the EPM Automate section.
5. Save the installer (EPMAutomate.tar) in a directory in which you have read/write/execute privileges.
6. Complete these steps:
   1. Extract the contents of the installer
   2. Set the required environment variables
   3. Change directory to the epmautomate/bin within the directory where the content of the installer was extracted
   4. Execute epmautomate.sh:

   In the following scripts, remember to use the actual directory paths where needed. For example, if EPMAutomate.tar is extracted into HOME/oracle/epmautomate/bin, use it as the value of EPMAutomate_extract_directory.

   macOS X example (Bash shell assumed) to install and run from your home directory.

   cd ~/
   tar xf directory_containing_downloaded_installer/EPMAutomate.tar
   export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
   export PATH $HOME/epmautomate/bin:$PATH
   cd EPMAutomate_extract_directory/epmautomate/bin
   ./epmautomate.sh

   Linux example (Bash shell assumed) to install and run from your home directory. JDK version 14.0.2 is assumed.

   cd ~/
   tar xf directory_containing_downloaded_installer/EPMAutomate.tar
   export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk_14.0.2
   export PATH ~/Downloads/epmautomate/bin:$PATH
   cd EPMAutomate_extract_directory/epmautomate/bin
   ./epmautomate.sh