Installing Arbortext Publishing Engine
To install Arbortext Publishing Engine you need to download the zip archive from the PTC Support site.
Following installation alternatives are available to install Arbortext Publishing Engine:
• Standard Installation – This method allows you to install using the Setup Wizard user interface.
• Silent Installation – This method allows you to install silently without any user intervention.
You must have Administrator privileges on the web server system to install Arbortext Publishing Engine successfully.
The Arbortext Publishing Engine installation directory is referred to as PE_HOME.
If you happen to install Arbortext Publishing Engine before you install Tomcat, you can still use Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration later to set up the integration between Tomcat and Arbortext Publishing Engine.
Standard Installation
To install Arbortext Publishing Engine:
1. After downloading the zip archive from the PTC Support site to a temporary location on your system, locate it before you proceed. Extract the contents of the zip file to the temporary directory.
Choose Run from the Start menu, browse to the file set, and choose windows\PESetup.exe. Follow the instructions on the screens.
2. Review the license agreement. You need to Accept it to continue with installation.
3. Select the directory for the installation. You can accept the default location C:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext PE or specify another by clicking Change. If you specify a nonexistent directory, the Setup program will create it for you.
If you choose an existing directory that is not empty, you’ll be notified that you should choose a different location or uninstall the software and then restart this installation.
4. Choose Install to copy files to your directory.
5. The setup program indicates that setup is complete. It provides you with an option to Run Java Selection dialog after setup. This opens the Arbortext Java Selection Tool dialog box and allows you to specify the path of the Java Virtual Machine(JVM). Select the checkbox if you have installed Java on your system. If you have not already installed Java in your system, you can clear the selection and specify the JVM Path after installation in the Arbortext Publishing Engine Interactive under > > .
6. Click Finish to complete the installation.
Silent Installation
For a silent installation of Arbortext Publishing Engine:
1. Download the zip archive from the PTC Support site to a temporary location on your system.
2. Open an administrator command prompt in this folder and enter the following command:
msiexec.exe /quiet /i <msi path>\ArbortextPE.msi
where the msi path refers to the folder path where ArbortextPE.msi is located.
After the silent installation is complete, you can locate the PTC program group shortcuts for Arbortext Publishing Engine.
Post Installation Tasks
After the installation finishes, the Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration program launches and allows you to view and complete some other configuration steps.
If you have already installed Tomcat and it is running as a service, Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration can automatically perform the integration for you.
You can also run Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration later from the shortcut in your PTC program group.
Otherwise, follow the instructions in this manual for integrating your web server application with Arbortext Publishing Engine.
For more information about using the
Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration program, see the
Configuration Guide for Arbortext Publishing Engine.
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Do not use a mapped or subst drive to browse for your Arbortext Publishing Engine installation to run Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration. Because Arbortext Publishing Engine runs as the LOCAL SERVICE account by default, a mapped drive will not be available to it, which then causes problems for the COM server.
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On the Start menu, you can locate the PTC program group shortcuts for Arbortext Publishing Engine.
Arbortext PE sub-processes and
Arbortext Publishing Engine Interactive need a FlexNet node-locked license file to run. They look for the
PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE environment variable automatically when they start. If
PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE does not exist or has an incorrect value, a license error will be reported. See
Arbortext Publishing Engine Licensing for instructions on obtaining and installing a license.
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By default, Arbortext Publishing Engine runs under the Windows SYSTEM account. If you start Arbortext Publishing Engine and PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE does not exist or has an incorrect value, its Arbortext PE sub-processes will report a license error.
If you try to start Arbortext Publishing Engine Interactive without a valid PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE, you will see a Licensing Error dialog box prompting you for license information. Because this dialog box will set the variable as a User variable, Arbortext PE sub-processes will still be unable to find the license. Be sure PTC_D_LICENSE_FILE is set as a System variable in the server’s System Properties.
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Refer to
Troubleshooting Arbortext Publishing Engine Licensing for information on how to obtain licensing information from the
Arbortext PE server.
