Starting the PowerBuilder Installer – PB Docs 2022

Double click PowerBuilderInstaller_bootstrapper.exe to
start the PowerBuilder Installer (you must have administrator
privileges to run the installer).

Select to agree to the license terms and click Continue.

Click Install/Modify under
PowerBuilder [version].

For those who prefer to use the traditional offline
installer, s/he can select Download Offline
Installer and then select the programs and components
s/he wants to download. This will download the offline
installer.

For those who want to upgrade the program, s/he can click
Update and then select the EBF or
MR package for the program s/he wants to upgrade.

Select PowerBuilder IDE and
PowerBuilder Utilities from the
Programs tab.

PowerBuilder Installer will also check if the prerequisites
have been installed; if not installed, a warning message (and
installation instructions if any) will be displayed on the right
of page.

If you want to install PowerServer
Toolkit, check the PowerServer
installation requirements first.

If you want to install SnapDevelop, .NET
DataStore, and PowerScript
Migrator, follow the installation instructions in Installation
Guide for SnapDevelop.

Based on the program(s) you selected, the available
components will be shown in the Components tab. Select the components you
want to install.

The required components or prerequisites are automatically
selected and cannot be de-selected. The installed
components/prerequisites will still be listed but cannot be
selected (the selection box is greyed out).

If no PowerBuilder Runtime
has been installed on the machine before, then select to install
PowerBuilder Runtime from the
Components tab, as PowerBuilder
IDE requires a runtime to start.

If a compatible version of PowerBuilder Runtime has already been
installed, you could use the existing version or select to install
the latest version of PowerBuilder
Runtime from the Components tab.

PowerBuilder Runtime is
always installed to %systemdrive%Program Files
(x86)AppeonCommonPowerBuilderRuntime [version]. For more
details, refer to the section called “Installing
PowerBuilder Runtime” in Application Techniques.

In the Locations tab, use
the default download location and installation location or specify
where you want the program(s) to be downloaded and
installed.

In the Additional Options
tab, specify a database engine for running the PowerBuilder demo
database and set up the local web server.

The demo database will be connected through the ODBC data
source.

To use the demo database with the PowerBuilder Application
projects and PowerClient projects, you will need a 32-bit ODBC
data source (hence a 32-bit ODBC driver is required).

To use the demo database with the PowerServer projects, you
will need a 64-bit ODBC data source (hence a 64-bit ODBC driver is
required).

If you specify the PostgreSQL engine, make sure both the
PostgreSQL client (included in Command Line Tools of the PostgreSQL Windows
installer) and PostgreSQL ODBC driver (32-bit and 64-bit)
have been installed.

If you specify the SQL Server engine, make sure the Database
Engine Services and Client Tools Connectivity features are
installed.

If you select “Do not install demo”, the demo applications
and databases will not be installed.

PowerBuilder Installer allows users to set up the IIS server
as the local web server. You can select an existing website or
create a new website as the default server profile for
PowerClient/PowerServer projects, or specify the website
later.

Click Install to begin the
installation.

When installation is complete, read the status message
carefully to make sure installation is successful, and then click
Restart Now to restart the
machine immediately or click Restart
Later to manually restart the machine later.