Selecting Products and Providing Basic Information

The common setup wizard collects basic information before beginning the PowerBuilder installation.

Note

Click Cancel to interrupt the installation at any point during this procedure. You can then either exit or resume the common setup. If you choose to exit, you can stop the current installation and continue with your other selections, or end the setup completely.

To select the PowerBuilder product and provide basic information before installing PowerBuilder:

  1. On the start page of the setup program, select Install.

  2. On the Welcome page, click Next.

    If you have not installed prerequisites for the current feature, the next page in the wizard informs you what needs to be installed. Click Cancel to exit the wizard, or Next to continue without installing the prerequisites.

  3. On the License Agreement page, read the license agreement, select the I accept the terms of the license agreement radio button, and click Next to continue.

  4. On the Customer Information page, enter your name and your company’s name.

  5. On the Select Products page, select PowerBuilder IDE and click Next to continue.

    Note

    If you are installing the PowerBuilder 2017 R2 Universal Edition, you can also select to install PowerServer Mobile, PowerServer Toolkit, PowerServer Help, and PowerServer Web Component. For installation instructions, refer to the Installing PowerServer 2017 R2 section in the Installation Guide for PowerServer (PB Edition).

  6. On the Choose Destination Location page, click Next to accept the destination path shown, or click Browse and select a different path, click OK, and click Next.

  7. On the Choose Destination Location For Shared Files page, click Next to accept the destination path shown, or click Browse and select a different path, click OK, and click Next. Use the same folder for shared files for all products in this set.

  8. On the Specify the SQL Anywhere Engine page, select Yes and then specify the location of a SQL Anywhere engine that will be used to run the demo database (PB demo DB) or select No if no SQL Anywhere engine, and click Next.

  9. Complete the setup program for the product you selected.