Installing Nexial Automation The Easy Way

• Watch it on Youtube
• The latest Java is version 16 (see below for download links)
• The latest version of Nexial Installer is v1.4.7

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References & Links

Download Nexial Installer

• Nexial Installer

Download JDK

• Oracle Java SE Development Kit 18
• OpenJava 18, GNU GPL v2
• Amazon Corretto Java 18 (OpenJDK)
• Adoptium OpenJDK Java (latest)

CI-friendly Code Sample

Shell script sample to install/upgrade Nexial Automation

#!/bin/sh

NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME=~/projects/nexial-installer
NEXIAL_INSTALLER_DISTRO=https://github.com/nexiality/nexial-installer/releases/download/nexial-installer-v1.4.7/nexial-installer-1.4.7.zip

# download installer
rm -f "$TMPDIR/nexial-installer.zip"
wget -O "$TMPDIR/nexial-installer.zip" "$NEXIAL_INSTALLER_DISTRO"
build_ret=$?
if [ ${build_ret} != 0 ]; then
  echo "FAILED to download nexial installer from $NEXIAL_INSTALLER_DISTRO"
  exit ${build_ret}
fi

# unzip installer
rm -fR "$NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME"
build_ret=$?
if [ ${build_ret} != 0 ]; then
  echo "FAILED to delete existing nexial installer directory $NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME"
  exit ${build_ret}
fi

mkdir -p "$NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME"
unzip "$TMPDIR/nexial-installer.zip" -d "$NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME"
build_ret=$?
if [ ${build_ret} != 0 ]; then
  echo "FAILED to unzip nexial installer to $NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME"
  exit ${build_ret}
fi

# install latest nexial
cd "$NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME/bin" || exit 1
chmod -f 755 "*.sh"
./install-latest.cmd
build_ret=$?
if [ ${build_ret} != 0 ]; then
  echo "FAILED to install latest nexial"
  exit ${build_ret}
fi

Additional Tools for Windows

• GNU Wget
• unzip

Windows batch script sample to install/upgrade Nexial Automation

@echo off

set NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME=C:\projects\nexial-installer
set NEXIAL_INSTALLER_DISTRO=https://github.com/nexiality/nexial-installer/releases/download/nexial-installer-v1.4.7/nexial-installer-1.4.7.zip

:download-installer
	del /f /q %TEMP%\nexial-installer.zip
	wget -O %TEMP%\nexial-installer.zip %NEXIAL_INSTALLER_DISTRO%
	if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
		echo ERROR: Error downloading Nexial Installer
		echo Exiting...
		exit /b 1
	)

:unzip-installer
	rmdir /s /q %NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME%
	if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
		echo ERROR: Unable to delete/reinstall Nexial Installer
		echo Exiting...
		exit /b 1
	)

	mkdir %NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME%
	unzip %TEMP%\nexial-installer.zip -d %NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME%
	if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
		echo ERROR: Unable to unzip Nexial Installer
		echo Exiting...
		exit /b 1
	)

:install-latest
	cd /d %NEXIAL_INSTALLER_HOME%\bin
	call install-latest.cmd
	if ERRORLEVEL 1 (
		echo ERROR: Unable to install latest Nexial 
		echo Exiting...
		exit /b 1
	)

:end

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