Afaria Installation Prerequisites

Install the required prerequisites for Afaria before launching the Sybase Unwired Platform installer. The Sybase Unwired Platform installer installs most of these prequisites during the installation process.

The Sybase Unwired Platform installer informs you of any missing Afaria prerequisites and installs them during the installation process. You can find the installers for these programs on the installation media in the \modules\afaria\Redistributables directory.

Note: For existing Afaria customers, your Afaria version must be version 6.0 or later. If you are using a previous version of Afaria, see Installing Afaria for information on upgrading.
Table 1. Afaria Server prerequisites
Product Version Installed by the Sybase Unwired Platform installer?
Microsoft Windows installer 3.1 Yes
.NET Framework 3.5 Yes
XML 6.0 Yes
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 2008 Yes
Afaria Hot Fix 23 6.0 No. Required only for existing Afaria customers who want to use Afaria Server with Sybase Unwired Platform.

You do not need this Hot Fix if you install Afaria Server from the Sybase Unwired Platform installation media.

Table 2. Afaria Admin Console prerequisites
Product Version Installed by the Sybase Unwired Platform installer?
Microsoft Windows installer 3.1 Yes
Crystal Reports Runtime for Visual Studio 2008 Yes
Internet Information Services 5.0 or 5.5 on Windows XP; version 6.0 for Windows Server 2003 No (available on Windows installation CD)

See Configuring Internet Information Services to use ASP .NET.


Created September 17, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com