Set environment variables

InstallShield automatically sets system environment variables that are needed by InstallShield. InstallShield installs three files that contain these environment variables:

After you exit InstallShield, you may need to reset environment variables, for example, if someone other than the Sybase administrator must use the software.

To set these environment variables, you can either:

Table 3-2 describes the environment variables.

Table 3-2: Environment variables for UNIX and Linux

Environment variable

Description

For HP Itanium, Sun Solaris, Linux, and Linux on POWER (IBM pSeries):

$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

For IBM AIX:

$LIBPATH

The subdirectory path to the Open Client and Open Server runtime shared library.

$PATH

The directory path to Replication Server files.

$SYBASE

The home directory where you install all Sybase products.

$SYBASE_JRE6

The subdirectory path to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

For HP Itanium, Sun Solaris, and Linux:

$SYBASE_JRE6_32

The subdirectory path to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

HP Itanium, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux on POWER (IBM pSeries):

$SYBASE_JRE6_64

The subdirectory path to the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

$SYBASE_OCS

The subdirectory path to Open Client files.

$SYBASE_REP

The subdirectory path to Replication Server.

$SYBASE_UA

The subdirectory path to the Unified Agent Framework and Replication Monitoring Services.