Installing the Online Documentation

This tasks explains how to install the online documentation on Windows.

1. Log onto your computer.

   You need to have administrator privileges to install the online documentation.

2. Insert the media.

3. Use the Windows Explorer to explore the documentation media, and double-click the Setup.exe program on the media to start the installation.

   The Choose Destination Location dialog box appears:

   
   
   

   The default folder in which the documentation in English will be installed is:

   C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B211doc\English

   Click the Browse... button to select a new folder if the default folder is not suitable.

4. Click the Next button to proceed.

   The CATIA Documentation Select Software dialog box appears containing the list of all documentation. The documentation is preselected:

   
   
   

5. Select the required manuals in the list.

   Click the Select All button to select either all documentation. Standard multi-selection of manuals is supported.

6. Once your selection is final, click the Next button to proceed.

   The CATIA Documentation Start Installation dialog box appears listing the online documentation you are about to install. You will see a list of the selected products, or Select all:

   
   
   

7. Click the Install button to install the documentation.

   A progress bar is displayed:

   
   
   

   Once the online documentation files have been copied, the CATIA Documentation Setup Complete dialog box informs you that the installation has been completed:

   
   
   

   Click the Close button to exit.

   Note that after installing the online documentation, you must set the CATDocView environment variable using the online documentation installation path.

This tasks explains how to install the online documentation on a server.

You may want to install the documentation files on a server to save disk space.

1. Install the documentation files on a computer as explained above.

2. Start a session and use one of the commands for obtaining help.

   For example, press F1 for contextual help. A dialog box will prompt you to specify the online documentation path.

3. In the dialog box, specify the remote path where the documentation is located.

   You can also access online documentation if it is installed on a http server (for example, Apache).

   If you do so, in the Apache server configuration file which is usually

   httpd.conf

   replace the line:

   #DefaultType text/plain

   with the line:

   DefaultType application/octet-stream

   Note: The same type of MIME type configuration must be performed on other types of HTTP servers on which online documentation is to be deployed.

This tasks explains how to uninstall the online documentation.

1. Use the Explorer to locate the documentation installation folder.

   For example:

   C:\Program Files\Dassault Systemes\B211doc

2. Delete the folder.

This tasks explains how to activate the Java (Sun) option for searching with Internet Explorer.

In order to be able to use the Search function when browsing on-line documentation with Internet Explorer, you must first activate the option IE Java(Sun). Otherwise, the Java applet will not appear, and will be replaced by a grey box. To do so:

1. Start Internet Explorer.

2. Select Tools > Internet Options...

3. Select the Advanced tab.

4. Check the Java (Sun) option.

5. Click OK and restart Internet Explorer.

This task explains how to install the online documentation on AIX/Linux.

The online documentation is provided on a suite of CD-ROMs. Once the documentation files on the first CD-ROM have been installed, you will be prompted to insert the next CD-ROM, and click OK to continue the installation until you have inserted the last CD-ROM.

Note that you must install all the documentation CD-ROMs: you cannot, for example, install only one out of the whole suite. If you click the Cancel button before installing the final CD-ROM, the documentation files previously installed will be uninstalled.

1. Logon as root.

2. Verify that you have enough free disk space in the file system in which you intend to unload the code.

3. Insert the CD-ROM into the drive, mount the CD-ROM drive and change directory to the CD-ROM mount point.

4. Enter the command:

   ./start 

   to start the installation procedure.

   The Welcome dialog box appears. The steps are the same as for Windows.

   The default folder in which the documentation will be installed is:

   /usr/DassaultSystemes/B211doc

This tasks explains how to uninstall the online documentation on AIX/Linux.

1. Logon as root.

2. Delete the installation directory, for example:

   /usr/DassaultSystemes/B211doc