Before you perform the installation, extract the installer files on the UNIX machine. The user that runs the installer must have read and write permissions on the installer files directory and execute permissions on install.sh.
The installer files are compressed and distributed as a tar file. Use a native tar or GNU tar utility to extract the installer files to a directory on the UNIX machine. For example,
tar -xvf <filename.tar>
You can extract the installer files in the following ways:
Installation DVD. Download the Informatica tar file from the installation DVD to a directory on your machine and then extract the installer files, or extract the installer files directly from the DVD to a directory on your machine.
FTP download. Download the Informatica installation tar file from the Informatica Electronic Software Download site to a directory on your machine and then extract the installer files.
If you extract the tar file on Windows and then copy the installer files to UNIX, the installation can fail.