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c) For installation on a Charon host where a conventional RPM installation was performed: the packages can be downloaded from a Stromasys server.
They are also included in the Charon agent RPM and available in (/opt/charon-agent/ssp-agent/bin/) after the agent has been installed.


Please note: starting with SSP version 5.6.1, the RPM packages are distributed in an self-extracting archive. The archive required for the Charon-SSP Manager is charon-gui-<version>.  It also contains the Charon-SSP Agent which must be installed on the Charon host system to be managed by the Charon Manager.

Use the following command to unpack the RPM packages:

  • Go to the directory containing the self-extracting archive.
  • Run the script: # sh charon-gui-<version>.sh
  • Read the end-user agreement and accept it.
  • The RPM packages will be extracted in a subdirectory (charon-gui-<version>) of your current working directory.

Charon-Manager Installation on Linux

Prerequisites

The Charon Manager can be installed on the Charon host itself or on a remote management system. For the Charon Manager to work, the Charon Agent must have been installed on the Charon host system. The Charon Manager communicates with the Agent to configure and manage the emulator instances.

When the Charon Manager is installed on a Linux host with a graphical user environment, the prerequisites are often already fulfilled. However, when installing the Charon Manager on the Charon-SSP host in the cloud or on a Linux server without graphics (for example, to display it via a remote X11-connection) instead of on a local management system, additional packages may have to be installed that normally are already available in a workstation environment.

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Step                                                         Description
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Installation on a Linux management system on customer premises (typical installation):

  • Log in to the Linux management system as the root user (denoted by the # prompt).
  • Copy the installation package to your local Linux management system (from one of the sources described above).

Installation on the Charon-SSP host system in the cloud or in a VMware environment (optional):

  • Log in and become the root user on the Charon host using the following commands:
    $ ssh -i <path-to-private-key>  sshuser@<cloud-instance-ip>
    # sudo -i
  • Please note:
    • The SSH key for logging in is not required for an on-premises installation that allows login by username/password.
    • If the Charon host was not installed using a prepackaged marketplace image, the username may be different and the installation package will have to be copied to the Charon host in a separate step.
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Go to the directory where the package has been stored:

# cd <package-location>

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Unpacking the shell archive:


  • Run the script: # sh charon-gui-<version>.sh
  • Read the end-user agreement and accept it.
  • The RPM packages will be extracted in a subdirectory (charon-gui-<version>) of your current working directory
4Installing the package:

For supported Assuming you are in the subdirectory containing the RPM file, use the following commands for supported Linux systems with RPM package management:

  • Linux 7.x:            # yum install <filename-of-package> 
  • Linux 8.x and higher:  # dnf install<filename-of-package>

(For an installation on the cloud host system, check if xorg-x11-xauth is already installed if X11-Forwarding is planned.)


For systems with Debian package management (Ubuntu):
    # dpkg -i <filename-of-package>

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