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Deployment on UNIX

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If CA Utilities have not previously been installed and the shared components directory has not been set up, then CA Business Intelligence requires root access for installation.

To run the setup program correctly, the following commands and utilities must be installed on your UNIX system and available on the PATH for the account being used to install BusinessObjects Enterprise:

These commands and utilities should be available on all UNIX distributions. However, if one of them is not available on your system, download and install a version appropriate to your UNIX system. It is recommended that you obtain any required files from your UNIX vendor when possible.

Note: On Solaris and AIX, ensure that the PATH environment variable of the account being used to install or run BusinessObjects Enterprise does not include GNU or third-party replacements for core system command-line tools (for example, the GNU coreutils package, or an individually downloaded and compiled version of a tool). While the GNU versions of these tools offer enhanced functionality, their output can differ significantly from the native UNIX tools, and can cause problems with the BusinessObjects Enterprise installation or server scripts.

Your operating system locale must be set to a UTF-8 encoding variant, such as en_US.UTF-8 (for other languages, use the appropriate localized UTF-8 encoding, such as de_DE.UTF-8 for German UTF-8). See the BusinessObjects Enterprise Supported Platforms documents on the CA Business Intelligence DVD for detailed information about locales.

BusinessObjects Enterprise supports both 32- and 64-bit UNIX operating systems.

BusinessObjects Enterprise Suite products that are compiled as 32-bit native binary are designed to use 32-bit data source middleware connectivity. Unless otherwise specified in the PAR, 64-bit middleware connectivity is not supported.