The installer enables you to brand the drivers. After verifying your product key, you will be prompted for the company name, branding password, and other information.

Note: The following steps reflect the messages displayed when installing on AIX. If you are installing on a different UNIX or Linux platform version, the name of that platform is substituted.

To install the Progress DataDirect Drivers for ODBC from downloaded files:

  1. Download the product file from the location provided by Progress DataDirect when you purchased the software.
    Important: Do not download the file to the installation directory that you will specify during the installation.
  2. Switch the temporary directory; then, choose one of the following:
    • If your product file uses the .tar.Z format, proceed to the next step.
    • If your product file uses the .tgz format, skip to Step 4.
  3. Uncompress the contents of this file. Enter:

    uncompress compressed_filename.tar.Z

  4. Extract the contents of the file. Enter:

    tar -xvzf product_filename.tgz

  5. Brand the driver:
    Note: A home directory is required, and the installer must have access to it. For UNIX/Linux installations, the home directory is the $HOME directory.