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This section describes how to upgrade the Charon-HPA PAR software to a new version. It covers the following points:
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Important information for software upgrades: Upgrading to this Charon-HPA PAR from an older version requires a license update. Please contact your VAR or Stromasys representative to plan the update. Charon-HPA PAR version 2.0 and higher is incompatible with licences of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-HPA PAR 2.0 and higher. Software licenses may have to be newly created from a fingerprint file during an upgrade from versions before Charon-HPA PAR 1.10. |
Charon-
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PAR Software Packages Overview
Charon-HPA PAR is provided as a set of rpm-packages.
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Package | Description |
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| aksusbd-<version>.i386.rpm | Sentinel runtime environment. Required for licensing the Charon-HPA PAR software |
| charon-license-<version>.x86_64.rpm | License related libraries and utilities |
| charon-mtd-<version>.x86_64.rpm | Charon-HPA PAR tape utility |
| hpa-<version>.x86_64.rpm | Charon-HPA PAR emulator executable, template configuration files for different supported hardware models |
Obtaining the Charon-HPA PAR software:
The software can be downloaded from the Stromasys fileserver. If required, please contact your Stromasys representative or your VAR partner. They will provide the download information or the software packages to you.
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Upgrade Commands Overview
The following table provides an overview of the upgrade commands for the supported host operating systems. For details, please refer to the relevant man-pages on Linux. The table only lists command-line options for Linux. There are also graphical tools. To describe all of them is outside the scope of this document.
Upgrade Options | Description |
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| Package manager (uses repositories, takes care of dependencies, etc.) |
(Older versions may need localupdate instead of update for local packages; newer versions use local operation if package name is a file name.) |
| Command to upgrade individual local packages | # rpm -U </path/to/package> |
Upgrading the Charon-
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PAR Software
To install the Charon-HPA PAR packages perform the following steps:
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| 1 | Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root"). | |
| 2 | Go to the directory in which the rpm packages were stored. | # |
| 3 | Update the Charon-HPA PAR packages. | #
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