Installation Preparation
Before beginning the installation of VAST Platform, do the following:
If VAST Platform or its former form, VA Smalltalk, is already installed on the local machine:
1. If EMSRV is running, stop EMSRV.
2. Stop any running VAST images.
3. If Environments is running, stop Environments.
4. If you are using VAST on a DBCS system, you must use the ABTRULES.DBC file instead of the default US-English ABTRULES.NLS provided by the system. The ABTRULES.DBC file contains additional codepage conversion tables needed for the DBCS environment. You can find this file in the installed product’s NLS directory. Back up the ABTRULES.NLS file to ABTRULES.BAK and then rename ABTRULES.DBC to ABTRULES.NLS.
DBCS
Display Resolution for DBCS machines.
To ensure all information is displayed on your computer, we encourage you to use the highest resolution offered by your display terminal.
If you have installed a trial version and are now upgrading to the paid version of VAST Platform 14.0.0, You may want to review to the
FAQ va02025 for to convert from Trial to licensed version of VAST Platform .
For Linux (UNIX):
Consider the following if you have code in the manager (mgr14.0.0.dat file) which you want to retain:
You can choose not to uninstall the manager during trial removal, but the installation of the paid version will still overwrite the manager. Before installing, copy the manager somewhere safe, then copy it back after installing the full version.
Last modified date: 03/24/2025