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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: 

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    $HOME/altibase-HDB-server-<version>
  • When installing the ALTIBASE HDB client product:

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    $HOME/altibase-HDB-client-<version>

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.

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patchinfo file

pkg_patch_<version>.txt file

altibase_base_install.log file

Backup directory

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.

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altibase_base_install.log  patchinfo

pkg_patch_0_0_0_0.txt                     uninstall-base

Ÿ   uninstall-base: Executable file to uninstall base release 7.1.0.0.0.

 

The following shows the information of APatch directory after applying patch 7.1.0.0.10.

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ltibase_base_install.log   pkg_patch_0_0_0_10.txt

uninstall-p0_0_0_10           patchinfo

rollback-p0_0_0_10/           pkg_patch_0_0_0_0.txt

uninstall-base

Ÿ   uninstall-base: Executable file to uninstall base release 7.1.0.0.0

Ÿ   rollback-p0_0_0_10: Directory where backups of files with patch 7.1.0.0.10 applied are located

Ÿ   uninstall-p0_0_0_10: Executable to remove patch 7.1.0.0.10 and revert to the previous version of the patch installation. Files for reverting to the previous version are stored in the rollback-p0_0_0_10 directory.

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