Launching the Suite Installer in TUI Mode

The Suite Installer has an interactive Textual User Interface (TUI).

Your computer requires a graphics card even when you use the TUI installer.

Both the GUI and TUI installers are interactive; they prompt you to answer questions and make configuration choices. The sequence of prompts is identical in both cases.

  1. Open a Command Prompt window on Windows or a shell on Linux.

    On Windows, open the Command Prompt with Administrator privileges. You can do this by using the right-click option Run as administrator on the cmd.exe executable file icon: 

    C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe

  2. Change directory (cd) to the volume 1 subdirectory in the extracted archive.
  3. To start the TUI Suite Installer on Windows, run the following file: 

    <download_dir>\media_name\1\StartTUI.exe

    To start the TUI Suite Installer on Linux, run the following shell script: 

    <download_dir>/media_name/1/StartTUI.sh

  4. Follow the prompts as directed, and press Enter after each response.

    When a question shows a default answer or value, simply press Enter to accept the default. To change the default, type your value and press Enter.

If at any time you want to go back to the previous question, clear the default entry, or quit the installation, special commands are available. Entries beginning with the "!" character are considered special commands:

  • type !b to return to the previous page
  • type !c to clear the default value
  • type !q and press Enter to quit

If you want to have an entry beginning with a "!" that is not a command, you must precede it by an additional "!". For example, if the question is to enter a password and the password is !toto, you must write !!toto. Similarly, if you want to enter !!toto, you must write !!!toto (and so on).

Radio buttons are identified by ( ): 

1 ( ) : unselected radio button
2 (X) : selected radio button

For radio buttons, only one choice is possible. To change the selected radio button, enter the number of the desired choice and press Enter; this will automatically unselect the previous choice.

Check boxes are identified by[ ]: 

1 [ ] : unselected check box
2 [X] : selected check box

Some, all, or none of a set of check boxes can be selected. To check or uncheck a check box, enter its corresponding number and press Enter.

If the Select All and Select None choices are shown, do one of the following:

  • use numbers 1 to n as usual
  • enter 0 and press Enter to unselect all check boxes
  • enter -1 and press Enter to select all check boxes