InstallAnywhere: Requirements

System Requirements

This document shows the technical specifications for InstallAnywhere.

For Systems Running InstallAnywhere (Authoring Environment)

• 128 MB free
• Minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors)
• Minimum 1024 x 768 resolution

InstallAnywhere runs on the latest versions of these operating systems, fully updated with the most recent patches and service packs:

• Windows 7 (32-bit x86)
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6 with Java 1.6
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (32-bit x86)
• SUSE Linux 9, 10, and 11.2 (32-bit x86)
• Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit x86)
• Solaris Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC)
• HP-UX 11i (PA-RISC)
• AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 (Power/PowerPC)

NOTE: A Japanese-localized version of InstallAnywhere Enterprise Edition is available on the Windows platform only. Installers can be built from any platform for any other platform or language. Localizations for 31 languages are included with Enterprise Edition. Localizations for 9 languages are included with Standard Edition.

For Target Systems (Installer Environment)

• 64 MB free
• Minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors)
• Minimum 640 x 480 screen resolution

Installers run on any version of these operating systems, as long as the operating system supports Java 1.4 or newer:

• Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit x86)
• Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit x86)
• Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Itanium 2, and AMD-64)
• Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit x86)
• Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit x86, Itanium 2, and AMD-64)
• Windows 2000 and NT (32-bit x86)
• Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 (x86, Itanium 2, and AMD-64)
• SUSE Linux 9, 10 and 11.2 (32 -bit x86)
• Linux on zSeries
• Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit x86)
• Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC, x86, and AMD-64)
• HP-UX 11i (Itanium 2 and PA-RISC)
• AIX 5.2, 5.3, and 6.1 (Power/PowerPC)
• i5/OS (OS/400) on System i - V5R3 and V5R4 (Enterprise Edition only)
• z/OS
• FreeBSD
• Other Linux and Unix operating systems (POSIXcompliant shell required)

NOTE: InstallAnywhere installers are not supported on beta or on early access releases unless explicitly mentioned above.

Supported Java Virtual Machines

• Sun: 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x
• IBM: 1.4.x, 1.5.x , 1.6.x
• Apple: 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x 
• HP: 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x 

The InstallAnywhere installer installs Java 1.6 VM packs. Any Java virtual machine can be bundled with an installer ensuring that the target system meets the minimum requirements for both the installers and your applications. To download additional VM packs, go to InstallAnywhere Downloads.

NOTE: InstallAnywhere installers are not supported on beta or on early access releases of Java.