# Installation

## Install dqMan Veeva Vault Edition

dqMan is distributed as a portable application packaged as a ZIP file. The ZIP file can be extracted anywhere on the installation machine. The folder where dqMan is extracted to can have any name, as per the user's preferences.

Please note that deploying the application to the default Program Files folder may require administrative permissions; this is standard Windows behavior when deploying any files to the Program Files folder and not specific to dqMan.

Although dqMan is officially distributed as a Windows application, it can also run on Linux systems using **Wine**. In this case, the ZIP archive should be extracted to a local directory, after which a terminal must be opened in that location and the application started using the following command: `wine dqManVVE.exe`

dqMan on Linux was tested using Wine versions 9.0 and 11.0.\
Testing was performed on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

## Command line parameters

You can use the following command line parameters in dqMan:

**For login**:

* `-r<Vault>`- Autoconnect to the supplied vault. The vault name must be given in the same format dqMan is configured to use. If fully qualified server names are activated, vault names need to match this format.
* `-u<Username>` - A valid username to log in with
* `-p<Password>` - The password for the user.

## Glossary and Terms

<table><thead><tr><th width="150">Term</th><th>Explanation</th><th data-hidden></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>VQL</td><td>Vault Query Language</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>MDL</td><td>Metadata Definition Language </td><td></td></tr><tr><td>DB</td><td>Database</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>SQL</td><td>Structured Query Language</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>fme</td><td>fme AG (dqMan vendor)</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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