Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for UNIX


Maintaining Two Versions

Follow these steps to maintain Version 9 and either Version 7 or Version 8 of Progress on your UNIX or Linux system:

  1. Follow the procedure for installing a new product. When the installation procedure prompts you for a Select Destination pathname, type a directory other than the one in which the current product is installed. For example, you can use the Progress version number /usr/dlc83a or /usr/dlc91c.
  2. When prompted, instruct the installation procedure not to copy the scripts to /usr/bin.
  3. In Version 9.1 you can use proenv to set DLC bin in your path. Enter the following command at the system prompt to run proenv:
  4. installation-path/bin/proenv 
    

    This command will spawn a new shell and generate the proenv prompt in your current window. Proenv automatically sets the DLC environment variable in your path.

  5. To access the new product, set the environment variables PATH, PROPATH, and PROMSGS.
  6. If you are running the Bourne shell or the Korn shell, put the following lines in your.profile file or type them either at the system prompt or in the proenv window:

    PATH=$DLC/bin:$DLC:$PATH; export PATH
    PROPATH=$DLC:$PROPATH; export PROPATH
    PROMSGS=$DLC/promsgs; export PROMSGS 
    

    If you are running the C shell, put the following lines in your .login file or type them either at the system prompt or in the proenv window:

    set PATH=(${DLC}/bin ${DLC} ${PATH})
    setenv PROPATH “$DLC $DLC/bin”
    setenv PROMSGS=$DLC/promsgs 
    

    The new-directory-name is the name of the directory where you installed the new product.

    Include the DLC variable at the beginning of the definition of the PATH variable to ensure that UNIX first looks in the directory defined by the DLC variable before searching /usr/bin for the correct startup scripts. Set the DLC variable to ensure that the scripts look for the correct version of the product when they execute.

  7. To access Progress Version 7 or Version 8, set the DLC and PATH environment variables of the earlier version to the directory of the new version while running the new version.
  8. If you entered changes in your .profile or .login file, you must log out and back into the system for your changes to take effect.

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