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= Pre-Installation Requirements for the Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Ingres, for Unix-like OS =

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== DBMS Requirements ==

You need to know a variety of information pertaining to your Ingres node and database:

* [[HowCanIFindMyIngresNodeName|The Ingres node name]] 
* [[HowCanIFindMyIngresListenAddress|The Ingres listen address]] 
* The Ingres database name

== Software Requirements ==

* You must have the Ingres native client installed on the same machine as <nop>OpenLink's Ingres Lite drivers. You will find your Ingres II native client on your Ingres install media. The Ingres 3 client is featured in the Open Source download kit. At the time of writing, pre-compiled library binaries were missing for many platforms on which Ingres 3 runs.

== Configuration Requirements ==

* You need to configure a local [[ConfigureIngresVnodeUnix|Ingres vnode]].

== Next... ==

[[InstallIngresLiteUnix|Proceed to Installation & Configuration]].