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 prerequisites during the installation process.

To be able to install Afaria, you must install Internet Information Server before running the Unwired Platform installer. The Sybase Unwired Platform installer informs you of any other 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: Sybase Unwired Platform includes Afaria version 6.5. For existing Afaria customers, Sybase recommends using version 6.0 or later. If you are using a previous version of Afaria, see Installing Afaria in Afaria Documentation for information on upgrading.
Afaria Server prerequisites
Product Version Installed by the Sybase Unwired Platform installer?
Microsoft Windows installer 3.1 Yes
.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Yes
XML 6.0 Yes
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 2008 SP1 Yes
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 Microsoft Windows installation CD)

See the next topic, Configuring Internet Information Services to use ASP .NET.