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  • Upgrading to this Charon-PAR from an older version requires a license update. Please contact your VAR or Stromasys representative to plan the update.
  • Charon-PAR version 3.0 and higher is incompatible with licenses of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-PAR 3.0 and higher. Charon-PAR/PA3 licenses for version 3.0 are not backward compatible for emulators running with version 2.x.

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The following table lists the required installation packages (the placeholder <version> denotes the version of the package, for example, 3.0.13):

par emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 7.x systems.charon-par-<version>.el8
PackageDescription
Sentinel runtime environment. Required for licensing the Charon-PAR software.
aksusbd-7.63-1.i386.rpm32-bit package for CentOS/RHEL 7.x; requires the 32-bit glibc package.
aksusbd-8.13-1.x86_64.rpm64-bit package for RHEL 7.7 and higher; RHEL 8; CentOS 8. (see also https://docs.sentinel.thalesgroup.com/ldk/LDKdocs/rte/linux-rh-suse-centos.html)
Charon-PAR tape utilityemulator
charon-mtdpar-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR tape utility for CentOS/RHEL emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 7.x systems.
charon-mtdpar-<version><version>.el8.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR tape utility for CentOS/RHEL emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 8.x systems.
Charon-PAR emulatorutilities
charon-mtd-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR tape utility for CentOS/RHEL 7.x
charon-mtd-<version>.el8.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR tape utility for CentOS/RHEL 8.x
xhpterm-free-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpmTerminal emulation for block mode applications (CentOS/RHEL 7.x)
xhpterm-free-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpmCharon-PAR emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 8.x systems.Terminal emulation for block mode applications (CentOS/RHEL 8.x)

Obtaining the Charon-PAR software:

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  • For the installation of a Charon-PAR/PA3 emulated system, a preinstalled MPE/iX 7.5 disk image (mpe75a.dsk.bz2) is required. This will be provided by Stromasys.
  • For the installation of a Charon-PAR/PA9 emulated system, a HP-UX ISO is required. 

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StepCommand
1Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root").
2Go to the directory in which the rpm packages were stored.

cd <path-to-kits-dir>

3Install the Charon-PAR emulator and utilities packages.

# yum install charon*.rpm xhpterm*.rpm (Linux 7.x)

# dnf install charon*.rpm xhpterm*.rpm (Linux 8.x)

or

# rpm -i *.rpm

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