Installing the Client

The PC-Client CD contains several components that are each packaged with their own installer. When you insert the PC-Client CD, a menu program launches automatically. The menu program presents the list of components that can be installed from the CD and allows you to install them one at a time.

1. Verify that your computer has sufficient disk space for each product.
2. If you are unloading components, log in using an account with administrator privileges.
3. Close any open applications or utilities to free memory and system resources.
4. Select Run from the Windows Start menu to start the installation program, and enter the following (where X is the directory into which you have copied the PC-Client installation files:

   X:\autorun.exe

5. Select Client Components 15.5.
6. When the installer starts, the Welcome window displays. Click Next.
7. When the Sybase license agreement displays, select a country, click I Agree, then click Next.
8. Enter the directory path and click Next.
   1. If you specify a destination that contains a previous version of the server, the Choose Update Installation panel displays. In this panel, you choose the features to update.
9. If you are updating your pre-existing server, you will not see this step. Choose the type of installation to be performed:
   
   • Typical Install – installs the default components that most users need.
   • Full Install – installs every component on the CD.
   • Custom Install – allows you to select the components to install. Certain components are automatically installed if they are required to run other selected components.
10. If you select Custom Install, next specify the components to install. Components installed in a typical installation are automatically selected. You may select or unselect components from this list.
11. Click Next. The Summary window displays every component to be installed by the installer, the required disk space, and the available disk space.

    If the target directory does not have enough free space, the available space appears in red. You must either click Previous to return to the previous window and change your selections, or Cancel to quit the installer.

12. Click Next. The installer displays a progress indicator as it installs components.

• Installing the Client in Silent Mode
  After running the installer in GUI mode and recording the responses into a response file, edit the file to customize the responses.
• Getting Started After Installing
  After installing Adaptive Server, Sybase Central, and the Java Runtime Environment, test the installation and network connections. Adaptive Server communicates with other Adaptive Servers, Open Server applications (such as Backup Server), and client software on your network. Clients can talk to one or more servers, and servers can communicate with other servers by remote procedure calls.
• Uninstalling PC-Client
  Actions performed by the Installer are removed during an uninstallation process. Files, or registry entries created after installation are not removed and must be manually removed when the installation process has finished.