2 Installation of TimesTen Classic on Linux or UNIX

This chapter is for TimesTen Classic only. It discusses how to create and manage installations and instances for TimesTen Classic on Linux and UNIX hosts.

Before installing TimesTen, ensure you have reviewed the terminology and completed the prerequisites. See Overview of the Installation Process in TimesTen Classic for more information.

This chapter focuses primarily on full installations and full instances. See Client-Only Installations and Instances for information on client-only installations and instances.

The examples in this chapter are performed on Linux, but are applicable to the platforms that support full installations and full instances.

Topics include:

• Creating an Installation on Linux/UNIX

• About Creating an Instance on Linux/UNIX

• Creating an Instance on Linux/UNIX: Basics

• Creating a TimesTen Client Instance

• Modifying an Instance on Linux/UNIX

• Destroying an Instance on Linux/UNIX

• Copying an Installation on Linux/UNIX

• Deleting an Installation on Linux/UNIX

There is an example at the end of the chapter that demonstrates the steps for creating an installation, creating an instance, modifying an instance, destroying an instance, and deleting the installation. This example ties all the concepts of the installation process together. See:

Complete Example for Installing and Uninstalling TimesTen Classic for details.

There is also information on installing Oracle Clusterware. See Installing Oracle Clusterware for Use with TimesTen for information.