Installation Guide

Installing the library manager

The library manager holds your VisualAge Smalltalk source code. The VisualAge Smalltalk Enterprise - Library Manager should be installed before installing VisualAge Smalltalk Client. The Manager should be installed first, on a server accessible by those application programmers who will be using VisualAge. The Manager can be installed just once, by a system administrator. The client should be installed by the system administrator on each workstation.

Note:The installer writes installation status messages to its 'stdout' stream. These messages will appear within the dtterm or xterm where the installer was started. When the installation is finished, this window will show a Finished message.

To install the VisualAge Smalltalk Enterprise - Library Manager, do the following:

  1. On the Welcome window, select Readme to view the readme file for any late-breaking information on the UNIX version of VisualAge.
  2. On the License Agreement window, read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms and conditions, select Accept. Otherwise select Decline and exit the installation.
  3. If you have previously installed VisualAge Smalltalk Manager Library 5.5, the Verify Development Manager Library page appears. Verify or type the directory of the manager library and click Next. A second Verify Development Manager Library page then appears. Ensure that you have backed up your VisualAge Smalltalk Manager Library 5.5 and check the I have backed up my manager library box.
  4. On HP-UX and Sun Solaris,on the Select Features window, if you have previously installed VisualAge Smalltalk Enterprise Version 5.5 Manager, next to the Version 5.5 features that were previously installed you will see a + and a number that indicates the approximate size difference of the feature in VisualAge Smaltalk Version 5.5.1. On AIX, the + and the number indicate the full size of the feature in VisualAge Smaltalk Version 5.5.1.
    Note:On some Unix platforms, problems have been reported on the Select Features screen. After selecting a new feature to install, sometimes the Next button is not enabled due to an error in synchronization of the features. To correct this problem, select the Back button and then on the License Agreement screen, select the Accept button. The Next button on the Select Features screen should then be enabled.
  5. On the Select Features window check off the features you wish to install by clicking the box next to the feature(s). Click Next to continue.
  6. You will now be asked to complete the installation. Verify that all of the information is correct and click Next. The product will now install.
  7. When the installation is complete, click Finish to end the install program or View Readme to view the readme file.

The files are installed to /opt/IBMvast/5.5 directory.

The size of the library manager will grow considerably as optional features are loaded and as source code accumulates during the course of a development effort. It is possible to install the library manager on a filesystem other than /opt, and to run the EMSRV daemon with the library manager on the alternate filesystem. This may be a convenient configuration for managing the growth of the library manager and for maintenance backups.

To install the library manager on an alternate filesystem you must complete a couple of steps manually. Before performing the install, create a /opt/IBMvast/5.5/manager filesystem which is mounted on a logical volume other than the volume on which /opt is mounted, or define /opt/IBMvast/5.5/manager as a symbolic link to a directory on such an alternate filesystem.

Note:The filesystem on which the library manager resides must be mounted on a local drive. The EMSRV daemon will not operate properly if the library manager file is on a remote NFS filesystem.

If you are using EMSRV, you must set up and start EMSRV after you install the library manager.


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