The Unified Installer supports installing branded versions of the product for AIX, HP-UX PA-RISC, HP-UX IPF, Linux, Linux Itanium Architecture (64-bit), Big Endian Linux for PowerPC, Linux OS on z Systems (64-bit), Little Endian Linux for Power8 (64-bit), and Solaris platforms in the 64-bit Linux environment using cross-platform branding. The primary benefit of cross-platform branding is that you can install and brand product directories for multiple platforms on a single operating system. The resulting binaries can then be used in the building and packaging of your applications. The single-driver installer does not support cross-platform branding.

Cross-platform branding is supported for 32-bit drivers, as well as 64-bit drivers, in 64-bit Linux environments. However, to install 32-bit drivers, the 64-bit machine must have 32-bit compatibility libraries installed.

After extracting the contents of the installer package, as described in "Branding the drivers on UNIX and Linux," you can perform cross-platform branding using the following methods: