Installing for Linux

Installing Lycia 3 for Linux

To install Lycia on Unix/Linux, you must run the installation as a root user. We also recommended that 4gl developers create a user and a group called querix or informix which will act as the owner for the Querix installation.

Technically, you can install Lycia 3 to any place in your computer which you consider necessary and convenient. However, we strongly recommend you to follow default installation paths because we shall refer to them in this documentation. If you nevertheless decided to choose another installation directory, please, avoid using special symbols like @, %, #, <, >, ", !, [space] when creating folders: Otherwise, Lycia Studio will fail to start.

Prior to installing Lycia 3, you have to choose which development tasks you are going to fulfill. We provide our users with three installation variants – Full (recommended), Production, Custom. For greater detail, please, refer to Installing Lycia 3 for Windows.

To install Lycia 3 software package, please, follow the steps below.

The installation procedure (namely, the steps to follow) depends on the chosen installation option.

Below you get the full installation. With other installation options, some steps are omitted.

You must run the installation as root user to ensure that Lycia is installed properly.

Step 1

Download the necessary installation package from querix.com:

Step 2

Unzip the installation file:

sudo tar xzvf ./Lycia-<os>-<platform>_<version>_<build>.tar.gz

To use relative pathname, you need to move to the directory which contains the installation package. You can check the current directory by the command pwd and change directory by the command cd /Lycia_install_package_directory:

Step 3

Wait until the unzipping is over:

Step 4

Run the installation script as root user:

./install.sh

Step 5

Read and accept End User License Agreement:

Step 6

Choose the owner user and group:

As was written above, we recommend 4gl developers to create a user and a group called querix or informix for any Lycia-related purposes. However, if required, you can choose any other user and/or group. By default, Lycia 3 installer suggests the user and group with which you have logged-in the system, but they can be changed easily during the installation: