Creating an installation directory

Install Rational® Synergy into a release-specific directory that is visible from the client computer.

About this task

The installation directory path is ccm_home.

The installation directory can be anywhere, and have any name. However, install each Rational Synergy release into a release-specific directory (such as /usr/local/ccm72), then link /usr/local/ccm to your current default release. You can install more than one installation of Rational Synergy on a computer, which might be necessary if you are upgrading to a new release.

For example, if you have a previous Rational Synergy installation in the /usr/local/ccm71 directory, install the new version into /usr/local/ccm72, then link /usr/local/ccm to /usr/local/ccm72.

For more information about multiple installations, see Creating multiple installations of Rational Synergy.

Record the path to this directory in the Informix home directory step of the installation worksheet.

Procedure

To create an installation directory:

  1. Log on to the installation computer as user root.
  2. Create the installation directory. This directory must be visible from the client computer, or a local client must be installed.
       root# mkdir ccm_home
       root# chown ccm_root ccm_home
       root# chgrp ccm_root ccm_home
       root# chmod 755 ccm_home
       root# ln -s ccm_home /usr/local/ccm

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