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 step 5.

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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