Overview
The Altibase Package Installer is a Java-based installer. The user can easily install Altibase products such as database server, client libraries, and tools using the Altibase package installer.
Altibase Home Directory
When installing using the Altibase Package Installer, a home directory and an APatch directory are created.
The Altibase home directory is the default directory where Altibase software is installed.
The default home directory is as follows.
When installing the ALTIBASE HDB server product:
When installing the ALTIBASE HDB client product:
APatch Directory
The name of the Altibase Package Installer directory is APatch, which is located in the Altibase home directory.
This directory contains files containing information installed product and a patched version. The files are as follows.
patchinfo file
This file contains the following information:
- Information on the base release version and patch version of the currently installed Altibase product
- Information on the environment in the product such as operating system, operating system patch, C/C++ compiler and Java compiler are built
pkg_patch_x_x_x_x.txt file
This file is automatically created with the name pkg_patch_<installed version number>.txt each time a product is patched. This file contains the revision number of the source code modified to make the patch.
The following example shows the information of the APatch director after installing the base release 7.1.0.0.0.
The following example shows the information of the APatch directory after installing patch 7.1.0.0.10.
altibase_base_install.log file
All the actions during the most recent installation are recorded in this file.
Backup directory
When installing the patch, the Altibase Package Installer creates a backup of the file to which the patch is applied and saves it in the $ALTIBASE_HOME/APatch directory. In this directory, separate backup directories created for each patch are located. These backup files will be used later to roll back the patch.
In addition, executable files used when uninstalling or rolling back a patch are installed in the $ALTIBASE_HOME/APatch directory when installing the product or applying a patch.
* Note 1: On the HP platform, automatic backup and rollback are not supported when patching the installer. The user must manually back up data and log files.
* Note 2: Only files installed through the package installer are backed up to this backup directory, and files created after product installation, such as data files and log files, are not backed up.
The following shows the information of the APatch directory after installing the base release 7.1.0.0.0.
The following shows the information of APatch directory after applying patch 7.1.0.0.10.