About the Installation Process

This section list the available installers and also precautions during installation on UNIX.

This page discusses:

Installers

This section lists the installer available for Windows and UNIX platforms.

To install Connector for Solid Edge Server, you use these installers:

Connector for Solid Edge Server Installer

  • Windows-- setup.exe
  • UNIX--setup.sh

Connector for Solid Edge Client Installer:

  • setup.exe
Note: Note that there are separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Precautions During Installation on UNIX

This section lists the precautions that must be considered before installing on UNIX.

You must log in as a user with administration rights. Log in as root to install the Connector for Solid Edge on UNIX. The user must have the following permissions:

  • Permission to run the installer
  • Permission to run MQL
  • Write permission on the RMI staging directory
  • Write permission to the user installation directory
  • Java needs to be in the system PATH environment variable of the logged-in user

Before you start make sure,

  • The TEMP variable (for Windows) or TMP (for UNIX) must be set to a valid directory.
  • The drive where the TEMP variable points should have sufficient free space. The installer executable size is approximately 4 MB.
  • The Security Alert message is granted permission to proceed.

Ensure that the compatible version of JVM is installed. The JVM is available for download from Sun's Java web site.