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CHAPTER 2 Installing Adaptive Server
Installation Guide 37
This document may also contain last minute installation information for
the 15.0.2 installation.
2 After backing up your databases, shut down Adaptive Server and back up
your SYBASE directory.
3 Installing Adaptive Server 15.0.2 overwrites current Adaptive Server
software. Prior to installing 15.0.2, make sure that your databases are
error-free as described in “Backing up Adaptive Server” on page 36 and
that your SYBASE directory is backed up.
4 Use InstallShield to load the new software from the CD.
For Windows installations, InstallShield starts automatically.
For UNIX installations, change to the CD drive and enter
./setup.
5 Install Adaptive Server 15.0.2 over the $SYBASE installation path.
Note Once files are loaded into your $SYBASE directory, InstallShield
asks if you want to configure the new installed server. Deselect
configuring the new server, and click continue to finish the installation.
6 Restart Adaptive Server.
7 Run select
@@version. The server should now be at version 15.0.2.
8 In Adaptive Server version 15.0.2, several changes have been made to the
system stored procedures and many new error messages have been added.
You must perform the post-installation tasks to make these changes
available.
installmaster and instmsgs.ebf should be run, in addition to following the
instructions in TechNote 1013610,
Post-installation Scripts and Tasks for
Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 EBFs at
http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1013610
for instructions on post-
installation tasks you may need to perform.
Backward compatibility with previous Adaptive Server 15.x
versions
Before using the new Adaptive Server 15.0.2 features, read “Adaptive Server
15.0.2 Backward Compatibility,”
the Sybase Web site at
http://www.sybase.com/support/techdocs
.